References for You

How-To's on Tutoring

• Common Reading Comprehensives Problems and Basic Exercises
• What's the Difference Between 098, 100, 100R, and 101?
• Finding Focus
• Finding Promising Moments in Student Papers
• Diagnosing Common Problems with Use of Quotations
• Tutoring the 201 Student
• Tutoring Students in 350:219/220 (Principles of Literary Study)
• Tutoring for Reading Comprehension
• Tutoring Through Talking
• When to Stop Speaking
• Working with ESL Students
• A Very Brief Guide to ESL
• 096-TF Job Description

Tutoring with Technology

• A Short Manual for Using DVRs
• Inspiration Quick Start Tutorial
• Sony ICD-47 Recorder Manual

References for Your Students

Getting Started

• Tutoring Session Notes
• How to Make Your Tutor Happy
• How is it Going?
• An Invitation to Write (for New Students)
• An Invitation to Write (for Returning Students)
• On the Project
• Talking About Yourself as a Writer

Reading Skills

• Defining Your Terms
• How (and Why) to Read an Essay More Than Once
• What Does This Have to Do With My Life?
• Making the Most Out of One Reading
• Working With More Complex Texts (or Longer Texts)

Making Connections

• Creating Conversation Between Two or More Authors
• Making Connections 1
• Making Connections 2
• Making Connections 3
• Making Connections 4

Revision Exercises

• How Can You Revise This Essay?
• Beginning to Find Your Voice
• Asking Your Own Questions
• Close Reading Your Teacher's Comments
• The Reverse Outline
• Revising for Organization
• Working with Quotations
• Using Block Quotes

Sentence-Level Errors & ESL

• The Error Handbook
• How Do You Deal With Error?
• Patterns of Error
• Identifying and Fixing Sentence Fragments
• Identifying and Fixing Comma Splices and Run-On Sentences
• Identifying and Fixing Subject-Verb Agreement Errors
• Tracking an Error in Your Own Words

201 & 301

• Helping 201
• Before Locating Texts
• After Locating Texts
• Bookless Draft
• Annotated Bibliography
• Benefits of Surprises
• Dialogue with Texts
• Evalutating Sources
• Fact to Theory
• Makin' Knowledge
• Mountain of Authority
• Why They Disagree
• Time Management

Miscellaneous

• Writing an Appropriate Conclusion
• Overall Paper Checklist
• Preparing for Midterms
• Writing Program Citation Guide
• Writing Program Proofreading Guide