Friday, April 4, 2014

A tutee has been working on a writing assignment for her accounting class (I did not aware of accounting students need to write..lol..I was one …did not required to write much).  Somehow her professor required her class using APA format, which deemed to be suited for psychological publication.  The tutor was not familiar with the work cited format so he looked up the guideline that the Writing Center provided.  After a few attempt, the tutor failed to find solution from the print materials, he then asked the tutee to use a general rule to complete her work cited page.  It was good that he ended up suggesting the tutee goes to the library for assistance since the library provided the work cited guideline that he had used.  
That remains me again that tutors may face many different situations in tutoring sessions.  Some of them are beyond their duties in the Writing Center.  I think it will be helpful if tutors can refer tutees to the right department so that the tutees will not feel to be left out. 

Speaking of the work cited pages; I have received the invitation periodically in my email sending from Lagcc library.  The library provides one-on-one help to assist student in creating of their works cited page in MLA and APA format.  It usually holds at the library classroom (E101).  Nonetheless, the last sessions were at last Nov and Dec.  My suggestion is that students need to check their Lagcc email frequency and join these types of information sessions as they become available, instead of waiting to the paper due.  This will be really helpful throughout the entire college career.

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