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, encouraging them to copy and paste from sources without citing, or doing their work for them.
What is plagiarism?
The required work dress.
What is your nametag and adherence to BYUI grooming and standards (refer to the Honor Code)?
The time and location of our required weekly training meeting.
What is forum hour? What is Thursday at 11:30 a.m. in the Writing Center?
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?
Things to do when a student is late to an appointment.
What is reviewing training material and reaching out to the student?
This needs to be done when you will be late or can no longer attend an appointment.
What is contacting the student to reschedule (preferred) or contacting other tutors to cover your appointment?
The Writing Center channel of communication.
What is Microsoft Teams?
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.?
How to approach a student that is writing about an opinion you dislike or disagree with.
What is avoiding negative comments about a writer's topic? What is focusing on the organization or content, rather than your own opinion?
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.?
Refraining from negative talk about students, staff, or fellow tutors.
What is professionalism?
Ways to support your fellow tutors.
What is being consistent with students, covering your own appointments, being a responsible coworker, talking positively about each other, helping answer questions from each other, refraining from drama, etc.?
A proper check-in/check-out comment.
What is a detailed list of what you completed and who you met with?
The place to find video tutorials, handouts, email-session forms, and frequently-asked questions.
What is the Writing Center website?
Wasy to properly prepare for an appointment.
What is 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?
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?