Locations

 

You and your tutor will meet at one of the Reading-Writing Center (RWC) locations on campus:

• the Williams Building, Room 222

• the Johnston Building, open space near the math lab

• Strozier Library, main floor

• Dirac Library, front desk

 

View an FSU campus map to see the RWC locations

 

 

 

Scheduling

 

You may schedule this course for up to three (3) credit hours total in your time at FSU. During spring and fall semester, each credit hour (1) requires one half-hour appointment (30 mins) with your tutor every week (2 credits =1 hour, 3 credits = 1.5 hours). These time requirements are doubled in summer sessions, and students are discouraged from taking this course for more than two (2) credits in the summer.

 

You cannot schedule appointments for longer than one (1) hour at a time, so that you can have time to prepare your writing for the next appointment.

 

Appointments are scheduled by visiting the RWC Appointment Scheduler and can automatically appear at the same time each week.

 

If you meet with a tutor more than once per week, scheduling conflicts may cause you to work with more than one tutor. See our Tutor Bios for an introduction to our tutoring staff.

 

 

 

Credit and Grading

 

All credits are Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (S/U) grading scale. In order to earn a Satisfactory grade, you must:

 

• Schedule a repeating appointment with an RWC tutor by the second week of the semester

• Create a focused list of goals with your tutor during your first two meetings

• Arrive on time to all appointments. Five (5) minutes is considered “tardy” and three (3) tardiness counts as an unexcused absence.

• Bring a piece of academic or creative writing to each appointment. You may discuss with your tutor working on professional or business documents such as your resume or a business letter, but please do not bring personal writing such as emails, blogs, or other material that is not directly associated with FSU. You may find it useful to dedicate some portion of time during a tutoring session to “free-writing” or polishing part of a draft, but arriving unprepared is the same as an (1) unexcused absence.

• Abide by the attendance standards. You can miss three (3) appointments with your tutor in the course of the semester. Excused absences should be discussed with Dr. Jennifer Wells by emailing her at least twenty-four (24) hours before the appointment you need excused

• Receive positive progress reports from your tutor that demonstrates your achievements toward the goals you created at the beginning of the semester.

• Complete progress reports on your appointments, informing Dr. Wells of how your meetings are being spent and what you feel you are gaining from the course.

• Complete a 500 word summary at the end of the semester, detailing for Dr. Wells the goals you set, your work toward them, and how the interactions with your tutor helped toward achieving those goals.

 

 

 

The RWC Tutoring Staff

 

Tutors at the RWC locations are trained graduate and undergraduate students from specializations in the English and Education departments. Our tutors have a passion for helping students polish reading and writing skills to excel in all areas of their coursework at FSU, and in many areas of professional and personal life beyond college. Each of our tutors takes a hands-on, specialist-led training course to prepare to be an RWC tutor, and many have experience teaching undergraduate classes as well. Visit our RWC Tutor Bios page to find out more details on all of our terrific team members.

 

The RWC tutoring staff are not professional editors. They are not trained in line editing, proofreading, or the many details of various formatting styles (MLA, APA, Chicago, etc.). It is not possible for students and tutors to spend time in meetings editing each line of a piece of writing for precise grammatical perfection. RWC tutors are trained to assist you make the structure of your logic and argument clear, and can help you with transitions between ideas, organization of your piece, and recognition of grammatical and punctuation patterns. If you are interested in professional editing services, please ask Dr. Wells for our available list of recommended professional editors.