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Becoming a Peer Writing Tutor

Posted in Becoming a PWT Electronic Logsheet Library New Tutors Payment S09 Working in a class
May 26th, 2008 by Mary Ellen Bertolini

Students are invited to become Peer Writing Tutors if they have been nominated for the Ward Prize(for writing the best First-Year paper) or if they have been specifically requested by a faculty member to work with a first-year seminar or a college writing course.

New Peer Writing Tutors are paid ($8.70 an hour), and the Writing Program provides them with all the training they need. All new tutors attend an organizational meeting and five training sessions. All experienced tutors attend an organizational meeting and three training sessions.

Peer Writing Tutors

  • provide drop-in tutoring in the Center for Teaching, Learning and Research (room 225) in the New Library.

    As a tutor, you may select the areas (depending on availability) in which you would most like to work: classroom, drop-in library tutoring.

    Useful links

  • Peer Writing Tutor Guidelines
  • Working in a Class
  • Writing Guides
  • Working as a CTLR Drop-in Tutor
  • Getting Paid

    • Click here if you have questions.


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    Writing Guides for you to use

    Posted in Library Working in a class Writing Guides
    September 27th, 2007 by Mary Ellen Bertolini

    Learning to Write College Papers
    This is a site I created for one of my classes. It has helpful handouts about structure, thesis development, grammar issues, integration of quotations and more.
    Feel free to use these links and handouts with the students you tutor.

    Norton Writing Guide

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    CTLR PEER WRITING TUTOR DROP-IN REGULATIONS & TIPS

    Posted in Library
    September 17th, 2007 by Mary Ellen Bertolini

    As a drop-in tutor, you may work with a student anywhere in the writing process–from the first look at an assignment to helping to perfect a polished product. You job is to help the student write the best paper he or she can write (not the best paper you can write). You want to have the tutee leave the session excited about making changes.

    When you are tutoring in the Center, you are, also, the face of the CTLR and the Writing Program, and we expect you to be responsible and courteous (as well as talented).

    Below find regulations, best practices, and tips about the expectations of writing in different disciplines. Pay close attention to the regulations about securing an alternate. Remember that you must inform Pooja, CTLR, and remind your alternate by e-mail.

    Links below will become active soon.

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    Guidelines for Drop-in Shifts

    Posted in Library training s07
    February 13th, 2007 by Mary Ellen Bertolini


    LIBRARY PEER TUTOR GUIDELINES


    Request Form for a Shift

    Attendance Policy:
    You will receive a warning for the first time you do not show up to your shift. The second time you are absent, you will be fired.
    This policy is applicable to alternates. Alternates must attend the shift that they have agreed to cover. Note: If you fail to alert BOTH Esther and CTLR and your alternate is late, then it counts as your own failure.

    Alternate Policy:
    It is your duty to secure an alternate if you are not able to make your shift. You must let Luke know that you have secured an alternate tutor by email (eguidos@middlebury.edu)
    and email CTLR (ctlr@middlebury.edu) to let the student worker know as well. Please let your alternates know 24 hours in advance of when you will need them to cover for you.
    If you are unable to secure an alternate, email Esther at least 18 hours in advance, and he will help find one for you. Please do not contact him an hour before your shift to ask for an alternate, he will not be able to help

    Warning Policy:
    Warnings will be issued for failure to follow any of these policies. If any one tutor accrues 3 warnings, he or she will be fired. The policies which we have had the most trouble with in the past are pink slips and notification of Luke and CTLR for an alternate.

    CTLR student worker/Library tutor relationship:
    Please introduce yourself to the CTLR student worker and let him or her know that you are the library tutor for your designated shift.

    Library Tutor Signs:
    The CTLR worker has yellow library tutor signs that you should pick up when you arrive. Place it near you so that students can see it. Esther will be passing by CTLR every now and again to check that you are doing this. If you step out of CTLR for a moment (please no longer than 5 minutes), turn the sheet over so that the tutee knows that there is a tutor available that will be back shortly.

    Documenting Tutees:
    All library tutors should fill out a form to document how many students they have met with for the night as a way to track any trends and to identify when a double shift may be needed. Please leave the filled out sheet on the designated shelf in CTLR at the completion of your shift.
    If there are 3 or more students waiting to see a tutor, you may call a tutor from the alternate list (to be posted in CTLR) to help you. If you are working the early shift, tell students to wait until 9:30, when the tutor for the late shift will arrive.
    NEW POLICY: you must fill out the pink slip and turn it in on the night you work; log sheets without pink slips will not be paid.

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