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Writing Center: To make an appointment, call 656.4075, or go on line to www.uvm.edu/tutor. I HIGHLY recommend you meet with a tutor through the Writing Center for help with your writing process. These trained, supervised, peer tutors can help you:

• Understand assignments and academic genres , e.g. by looking closely at directions, sample papers.
• Make choices appropriate for the audience, purpose, and rhetorical context.
• Experiment with their writing process (because they have an hour to spend, tutors can help students try out different ways of going about writing and editing their work.)
• Get a fresh perspective on an idea or draft to see how to push their writing further.
• Interpreting an instructor or peer’s comments and implementing their suggestions.
• Frame a research question and finding sources.
• Incorporate and cite sources effectively and appropriately.
• Approach challenging texts that are central to a piece of writing.