MISSION STATEMENT: Built upon a program founded in 2014 by graduate student instructors, The Art of Writing Tutoring Program promotes UC Berkeley undergraduates’ success in writing, focusing on their acquisition of foundational skills in Reading & Composition courses. We offer free, one-one-one peer support for students taking R1A or R1B in the departments of Comparative Literature, English, Film & Media, and Rhetoric. Our tutors are department majors with proven writing skills. Tutoring is targeted and disciplinary-specific, responding to the parameters of R&C instruction and the challenges faced by R&C student writers in each department. We're excited to work with you on your writing! ------------------------------------------- TUTORING HOURS Sunday 6:00-9:00 pm Monday 6:00-9:00 pm Tuesday 6:00-9:00 pm Wednesday 6:00-9:00 pm Thursday 6:00-9:00 pm ------------------------------------------- BOOKIN POLICIES Please read carefully since our booking policies have changed to reflect remote instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. During remote instruction, tutoring will take place via Zoom. To set up your Zoom Pro account, visit: https://studenttech.berkeley.edu/zoomproprofessional You are welcome to take advantage of this tutoring service at any point in the writing process: tutors will be available to help with the early stages of brainstorming and organizing, with drafts- and revisions-in-progress, and with sentence-level writing issues. Tutors do not offer copyediting or proofreading services, but they can help you identify patterns of error and stylistic weaknesses in your writing. Once you book your tutoring appointment, your tutor will contact you via email with a link to a Zoom meeting and to exchange some information from you. Due to the constraints of a 20-minute appointment, tutors will not have time to read and discuss an entire paper with you, but they are trained to identify those aspects of the paper with which you most need help, using the information you provide. Note that tutoring sessions begins at Berkeley Time (ten minutes past the time indicated in your confirmation email). However, please log-in on time to ensure that you can make full use of your session with the tutor. You will be placed into a waiting room, and the tutor will admit you to the meeting when they are ready to begin. During your tutoring session, you and your tutor will work collaboratively to address your concerns about writing and the particular assignment you are working on. Please come prepared to be an active participant in a conversation about writing. The appointments are fairly short, so please prepare to make the most of your time with your tutor. If possible, make sure your workspace is free of distractions and noise. Consider using headphones and a microphone if you have access to them. During your tutoring session, your tutor will have their computer camera turned on to make communication easier. We encourage you to have yours turned on as well, but we understand that this may not be possible for a variety of reasons. Tutoring sessions will not be recorded.

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