{"id":259,"date":"2019-02-25T21:34:24","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T21:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/writingcenter\/?page_id=259"},"modified":"2026-04-09T13:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T13:20:47","slug":"writing-tutorials","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/writingcenter\/writing-tutorials\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing Tutorials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Center\u2019s peer tutors are happy to assist with any stage of the process for any writing assignment. Tutorials are student-driven, so you can choose when in the writing process to visit, and the peer tutor will work with you to address your concerns and questions. Our peer tutors are trained to work collaboratively in tutorials, and they also learn to emphasize the process instead of the process.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/smcm.mywconline.com\/index.php?msgLOG=YES\">Schedule a Tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"accordion\">\n<h2>Ways to Use Writing Tutorials<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>The attached handout offers some ideas for how to use tutorials to work through common issues in writing. If you would like to take advantage of tutoring but are not sure how it might work, look over the handout for some ideas.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2026\/04\/Using-Peer-Tutoring-to-Address-Writing-Scenarios-1.pdf\">More information on using peer tutoring to address different writing scenarios (PDF)<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Limitations of Writing Tutorials<\/h2>\n<div>\n<p>While the peer tutors love to help other students with their assignments, their help does have some limitations. Please see the attached handout for some examples of things the peer tutors cannot do and some ideas for how they could assist instead.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2026\/04\/What-the-Tutors-Can-and-Cannot-Do.docx\">Read about what the tutors can and cannot do (DOCX).<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center\u2019s peer tutors are happy to assist with any stage of the process for any writing assignment. Tutorials are student-driven, so you can choose when in the writing process to visit, and the peer tutor will work with you to address your concerns and questions. Our peer tutors are trained to work collaboratively in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-259","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":533,"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/259\/revisions\/533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/writingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}