Temple University Writing Center Tutoring Policies

1. Students may have up to 2 (TWO) sessions per calendar week. These sessions can be broken down as follows: 2 drop-in sessions per week OR 1 appointment and 1 drop-in per week.

2. The week runs from Monday to Saturday. This means that you cannot have one appointment on Tuesday and another appointment on Thursday, but you can have one on Thursday and one the following Monday.

3. Students who are more than 10 minutes late to an appointment forfeit the time slot. If late-comers still wish to be tutored, they will have to wait for a drop-in session.

4. Students may only be seen ONCE per day.

5. Students may not make same-day appointments.

6. Students who are waiting for a drop-in session can leave at their own risk. If you are not here when your name is called, your file will be removed from the drop-in bin and re-filed.

7. Drop-in sessions last thirty minutes. Appointment sessions last 50 minutes.

8. Students who miss three appointments will lose their tutoring privileges for the remainder of the semester. If you call in advance to cancel your appointment, you will not be considered a "no-show," and the cancelled appointment will not count toward your "three missed sessions" total.

9. Writing Center computers are reserved ONLY for students seeking tutoring. You are welcome to work in the lab as long as you’d like before or after your session.

10.Students may be tutored on their OWN WORK ONLY. We cannot review a paper on behalf of someone else.

11. For tutoring on a group project, all members of the group must be present. For more information on why we require this, please see our Group Project page.

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