[the writing center]

Dear Tutors:

 I plan to offer a Directed Study to accomplish the aims of Univ. Academic Services 099 (“Basic Writing”) to one of our students who never took the Writing Placement Exam and was consequently misplaced into English 130 at the beginning of the semester. She is Chinese, and has some difficulty with English, but most of the time not that much. I will be enlisting help from some of you to meet with her a few times during the semester, mostly just to converse in such a way that she practices both speaking and listening. Interactions with readings will be part of it too. No need to do anything now, but I may ask you individually about times-that-you’re-available.

 Michael Barry