Scheduling an Appointment
The following points should be observed when scheduling your appointment.
All Tutorial Appointments
- The Writing Center is a learning space, where you work with a peer to develop your writing skills together; it is not a service where someone else edits your work before you turn it in for credit.
- You are responsible for your knowledge – its presentation, its production, and the process of its production; the writing center gives you appropriate feedback on the written expression of your ideas while in process, not after the fact, when your document is hours or minutes from being submitted for a grade.
- You will need time to think about and revise your work between meeting with us and submitting the paper to the professor. We do not provide “quick-fixes."
- For these reasons, we do not conduct tutorials that focus on an assignment that is due the same day. For example, if your paper is due November 4th, we will work with you up until the end of the day November 3rd. We will not work with you on that assignment on the 4th, although we will happily work with you on any other assignments.
- Appointments are to be scheduled for 30 minutes at a time, and we request that you schedule no more than 2 appointments at any one time.
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Online Tutorial Appointments
- Online services are reserved for those students who live outside the Shoals area. If you live on or near campus, we prefer to see you in person. Check our homepage for hours.
- E-mail the document to your tutor immediately after scheduling your appointment. You may schedule an appointment up to 24 hours before its official starting time. This leeway is required to give tutors time to read and respond to texts before conferences.
- If for some reason a problem occurs in the online tutorial process, your tutor will follow up with you by e-mail.
- Appointments are to be scheduled for 1 hour at a time, and we request that you schedule no more than 2 appointments at any one time.
- After your appointment ends, you should receive a copy of your document, with comments, via e-mail from the Rich Company. If you do not receive this e-mail within two days, contact your tutor by e-mail.
