The Tutoring Book - California State University, Sacramento

A Guide to the Many Web Resources for Tutors and Tutees
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Joy Kessel
Spring 2011
Your first couple of weeks as a tutor may be a little disorienting and, if you are like most of us,
you will have the fear of not knowing enough to be a successful tutor. But chances are you are a
competent writer and student, and when you do not know how to do something, you know where to go for
resources. When you get a question from a tutee that you cannot answer, it is beneficial to share your
resource finding strategies with them in order to make them independent writers.
Of course, you may not always know where to find resources for your tutee’s specific problems,
especially if it is an issue you have never encountered (for example, formatting guidelines outside of your
own major’s discourse). There are many resources a tutor or tutee can access for help with writing and
this article is intended to be a guide to those resources. So, whenever you find yourself stuck, with no
time to flip through each book on the Writing Center shelf or no time to read through multiple Web pages
to find what you need, it may help to take a quick look at this list.
The following Web resources are provided in the Web Links section of SacCT. I will briefly
describe what each page contains and how they might be used in the Writing Center.
CSUS University Reading and Writing Center (http://www.csus.edu/writingcenter)
This site provides concise and important information for both CSUS students and faculty.
To the left of the main page, there is a link to Resources for Students.