How Can You Help Us?                                       SIUC Writing Center

Encourage Conference Summaries    Your students have the option of requesting that you receive a one-page summary of each session they attend.  We hope that you will encourage them to request a summary for each of their visits.  Keeping the lines of communication open between the classroom and the Writing Center can help make your students' Writing Center sessions more productive.

Provide Us With Your Feedback    With each conference summary, you will receive an Instructor Reply form, through which you can provide tutors with valuable feedback and suggestions for future sessions.  Tutors always appreciate hearing from faculty.

Referring Students for Specific Assistance If students need help with specific aspects of writing, you may simply ask them to sign up for a regular-weekly appointment, or you may specify writing problems using our  Faculty Referral Form, which the student then brings to the Center. 

Respect Student Autonomy    While requiring visits is one way to introduce students to the Centers, mandating attendance generally proves less productive than motivating students to attend voluntarily.  If you do decide to require your students to visit the Center, or offer extra credit for visiting, please remember that we have a limited number of appointments each day.  Spacing required visits across the semester can avoid scheduling conflicts and insure that all students have equal access to the Centers.

Lead a Training Session    Throughout each semester, tutors receive continuing education in areas such as tutoring non-native speakers and students with learning disabilities as well as writing in different disciplines.  If you have special expertise or guidance to offer on writing in your field, please consider volunteering to lead a training session.

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