RESOURCES FOR PROFESSORS

HELP STUDENTS GET THE MOST OUT OF THE WARC

To help students get the most out of their tutoring sessions, there are several basic things professors can do:

• If you give your students a writing assignment, hand out a typed explanation of the assignment with clear expectations, due dates, and any specific requirements. Students should bring these to share with the tutor. Please see these suggestions for designing writing assignments. 
• If a student is consistently struggling with writing, math, economics or accounting, refer the student to the WARC Director or the Center Coordinator to arrange regular sessions (for example, one-hour weekly sessions for the entire semester with the same tutor).
• Encourage students to make tutoring appointments ahead of time and to bring their assignments, the text(s) they are working with, and any work they’ve started towards fulfilling the assignment.
• Help students understand that if they make an appointment with a tutor and then fail to show up for it, they are not wasting only the tutor’s time and the school’s money but are also keeping another student from being able to get assistance. More than two “no-shows” and a student will forfeit his or her right to use the Center for a semester.
• Know what the role of tutor is. Please read “What Tutors Do (And What They Don’t Do)”.

COLLABORATING WITH PEER TUTORING

• Nancy Falchikov, Learning Together: Peer Tutoring in Higher Education
• Judith R. Levine, “Using a Peer Tutor to Improve Writing in a Psychology Class: One Instructor’s Perspective”
• Jo Mynard and Iman Almarzouqi, “Investigating Peer Tutoring”
• Paula Beck, Thom Hawkins, and Marcia Silver, “Training and Using Peer Tutors”
• Sophia Abbot, Anne Jumonville Graf, and Beverly Chatfield, “Listening to Undergraduate Peer Tutors: Roles, Relationships, Challenges”

ONLINE RESOURCES

• Writing Resources
• Writing Manuals and Resources Available as e-Books
• Different Genres of Writing
• Parts of an Essay
• Writing in the Disciplines
• Citation and Using Sources
• Professional Writing
• Additional Writing Resources
• Writing a Letter of Recommendation
• PrepScholar Letter of Recommendation Examples and Analysis
• Clemson College Guide to Writing a Letter of Recommendation

THE CENTER SCHEDULE

Room 228

We have 10 writing tutors, 10 math tutors, 5 programming tutors, 2 economics tutors, 2 accounting tutors, 1 English help tutor, 1 Russian language tutor, 1 Kyrgyz language tutor and 1 SPSS tutor.

Monday  -  Saturday :  10:00-16:00   

Additionally, the evening sessions (18:00-21:00) take place online weekdays. 

NOTE: The standard policy is that students can sign up for two sessions per week Monday-Friday. In addition to this, they can also book unlimited additional sessions on Saturdays.