How to Make the Most of Your Session
- Be conscious of the Academic Success Center’s hours and plan your arrival accordingly. Give yourself time to ask the questions you have prepared.
- Schedule your appointments early. This will allow more time for you to make any necessary revisions before the assignment is due.
- The Academic Success Center can help you with any stage of the writing process. You can come in for help with brainstorming, outlining, revising, and more!
- While we cannot help with any specific in-class writing assignments, we can review any concept, rhetorical mode, and/or grammar rule with which you may be struggling.
- Share with your tutor any preferred way of learning (i.e. visual, auditory, etc.) that you may have.
- For real-time online sessions, it may be a good idea to familiarize yourself with the software before your actual session. Review the information on the website or set up a time to practice with a tutor.
- For face-to-face sessions, feel free to remain in the Academic Success Center after your appointment to do your homework and/or utilize any of our resources. Please make sure, however, that you sign out immediately after your session to ensure that an accurate session report is generated for your professor.
- For drop-in subjects, be prepared to spend time in the Academic Success Center — tutoring is on a walk-in basis, so be aware that during periods of high volume, there may be a wait. Do not wait until the day before a test or quiz to seek help; it may be busy in the Academic Success Center, and you may not be able to get the amount of help that you desire.
- Be conscious of the Academic Success Center’s limitations. Tutors are not authorized to be of any assistance on take-home tests or other assigned graded work. Tutors can explain any similar problems that you locate in the textbook. Please do not ask the tutor to participate in any activity that may be deemed academically dishonest.
- The Academic Success Center has laptops available. However, if you need to take an online test or quiz, you must use the computers in the Library or a computer lab. You may not take any part of a test or quiz in the Center.
- Ask one of the Center staff if you need any help or have any questions.