Walsh University

Writing Center E-mail Tutoring Directions

Students

• Save your paper as a Word document.
• Choose one writing tutor for e-mail tutoring.

Refer to a Writing Center Schedule posted around campus or located in the Writing Center, FH 209.

• Open up your e-mail account.
• Send the writing tutor:

- Your first and last name

- The name of the course: English 101 (example)

- The name of your professor

- The purpose and directions of the assignment

- A list of the areas you want the writing tutor to address: thesis statement, idea development, organization, introduction or conclusion, research and documentation, or individual points of grammar

• Attach your paper to your e-mail message.
• Give the writing tutor forty-eight (48) hours.
• Open up the attached commented draft of your paper in your e-mail.
• Save it in Microsoft Word.
• Close out of your e-mail account.
• Open up Microsoft Word and access your paper.
• Run the cursor over the areas where there is the highlighted comment icon. The tutor's comments will appear.

If you have any questions or problems, please inform the Writing Center Director, Kathleen Buttermore, ext. 7233 or kbuttermore@walsh.edu.