CRC Consultations
In general, consultations are on the hour every hour. Fifty minutes will be devoted to the consultation and 10 minutes will be reserved for the Center's business e.g. filling out forms etc. Please try to remain on this schedule as record keeping is an essential part of the Center's duties.
Consultants may not spend all of the 50 minutes working with you. They may, for example, divide the time up so that they work with you for 20 minutes, you may work individually for 20 minutes and at the end of the session they will examine what you did and provide feedback, suggestions, etc.
Writing is an ongoing process and most assignments require more than one visit to the CRC. In other words, it is not possible to "fix" the writing for one specific paper within a 50-minute session; rather, you can only begin the process of improving in that first 50-minute consultation. Writing, much like sports or music, can only be improved though training and constant practice.
When you come to the CRC for help with a communication activity/assignment, bring:
- Notepad, pen or pencil.
- A draft of the activity/assignment (or notes and ideas toward a draft)
- Your instructor's assignment sheet
- Questions or concerns about the activity
- A disk, especially if the activity is on a disk
Your Resource Consultant will:
- Explain the nature of the tutoring session
- Familiarize herself/himself with your assignment/activity
- Listen to your concerns about the activity
- Go over a draft with you
- Offer suggestions, answer questions, work on exercises to better help you with your writing, etc.
- Sometimes ask you to engage in a writing activity, designed to improve your writing ability, which may be unrelated to your current assignment.
Your Resource Consultant will not:
- Evaluate your assignment
- Do your assignment for you
- Write suggested changes on your paper for you
- "Rip your draft apart"
- Act solely as a proofreader
- Engage in negative dialogue about the assignment, its grade, the course instructor, etc.