Scheduling & Submitting
The length of a typical appointment.
What is 30 minutes?
The amount of times you can give out the handouts per day.
What is every appointment?
Feeding the student lines sentence-by-sentence.
What is plagiarism?
The required work dress.
What is your nametag and adherence to BYUI grooming and standards (refer to the Honor Code)?
Our weekly training scheduled time.
What is forum hour?
The latest I-plan scheduling time.
What is Saturday night?
Who to talk to when you have a question.
Who are your fellow tutors and supervisors?
The expectation when a student misses an appointment.
What is reviewing training material or assisting with Writing Center tasks?
This needs to be done when you will be late or can no longer attend an appointment.
What is contacting the student to reschedule and/or contacting the other tutors to cover?
The Writing Center channel of communication.
What is Slack?
The proper time to submit reports.
What is after every appointment?
Books available to review beforehand and assist with appointments.
What are style-guides, grammar books, writer's manuals, dictionaries, etc.?
Responding to a writing topic that you disagree with.
What is avoiding negative comments about a writers topic?
The acceptable time to eat or use your phone.
What is while you are not tutoring?
Ways to get a raise and improve your tutoring skills.
What are Advanced and Master level tutor training courses?
The task after your last appointment of the week.
What is submit hours for pay?
Online resources.
What are google, PurdueOwl, the Writing Center website, etc.?
Things to do when a student is hostile during an appointment.
What is not retaliating, letting a supervisor know, stepping away for a few minutes, letting the student decide what to do with their appointment time, explaining to the student what we do during appointments, etc.?
Honoring the confidentiality of the tutoring relationship.
What is refraining from negative talk about students?
Ways to support your fellow tutors.
What is being consistent with students, talking positively about each other, helping answer questions from each other, etc.?
A detailed list of what you completed and who you met with.
What is a proper check-in/check-out comment?
The place to find video tutorials, handouts, email-session forms, and frequently-asked questions.
What is the Writing Center website?
Emailing students who schedule appointments, reviewing their work for up to fifteen minutes before the appointment, and collecting any resources that might be helpful during an appointment.
What is properly preparing for an appointment?
Clocking-in or remaining clocked-in for tasks unrelated to the Writing Center (anything exceeding five minutes).
What is time-theft?
Job-related tasks that you can clock hours for.
What are appointments, appointment preparation tasks, trainings, canvas course studies, advanced-tutor studies, master-tutor studies, handouts/books(at Writing Center)/website studies, and tasks assisting the supervisors?