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The Academic Success Center offers both in-person and online tutoring.

In-person tutoring will be held in the Academic Success Center on the main floor of Rebecca Crown Library (unless otherwise stated).

Virtual appointments will be held via Zoom. To access a Zoom tutoring session, simply click the Zoom link in the tutor's profile after booking your appointment.

Many of our tutors are comfortable tutoring in Spanish as well as in English--and welcome this multiplicity of languages in the ASC! To see if a tutor can provide your session in Spanish, click on an open spot with them to see if this fluency is listed in their profile.

Though students do not have to come to tutoring for writing with a completed draft, when your tutors work with you on a draft, they usually follow this process.

• When looking at a piece, tutors first see whether a student has met the assignment's requirements, i.e., answered the question.
• Second, the tutors attempt to identify a thesis statement and ensuing topic sentences, ensuring flow, order, cohesion and focus.
• Third, the tutors look at each paragraph, reviewing how it is introduced, how it is divided, how it is organized and structured, and how it works together.
• Fourth, tutors will look at how students incorporate and document research. 
• Finally, tutors will look at sentence-level errors, beginning with the most major (fragments, run-ons, missing words, subject-verb agreement) and working towards the least major (consistency, commas, word choice).

This can be a long process. A half-hour session does not ensure that tutors can cover all areas; therefore, students should make multiple appointments for one assignment.

Students must first make an appointment with Bob Greenwald, Jeanne Popowits, or Tim Cook or during their online (e-mail) tutoring hours using . Students will then submit their assignment, one hour before the appointment as an attachment. 

Appointments for assignments 1–4 pages in length should be scheduled for a 30-minute appointment and assignments for 5–8 pages in length should schedule a 60-minute appointment. 

Please submit your assignment or question(s) to the tutor at least one hour before your scheduled time to ensure that he receives the document before your scheduled appointment. 

To be clear: this is NOT an online chat forum. The time slot you have reserved will be time for the tutor to read, comment on your work and send the draft back to you with suggestions. At that point, you may send any follow-up questions you want to ask.