Advice

If I had one piece of advice for future writing center tutors, it would be to tutor as many students as possible. I realize more and more that the greater number of students I see, the happier I am with tutoring. Not only do I become a better tutor with every tutee that I see, but there are also gains that accompany the sessions which I would never have thgouth of. For one thing, reading students' papers is informative. A writing tutor has the priveledge (although it may sometimes seem like a chore) of reading hundreds of essays written by college students of all developmental levels in all subject areas. From freshman research papers on terrorism/counter terrorism to doctoral theses on health economics, each of the essays read teaches the tutor not only about writing but about, simply put, what the essay says. Some of the papers that I have read this semester have been excellent, and although I never really expected it, I felt grateful for having read them.