Hello
Thank you to everyone who responded to my request for a support tutor in
Sheffield.
All the comments regarding proof-reading have been very interesting to
read. I completely agree that in an ideal world proof-reading should
not form a regular part of study skills support - unless it is done with
the student's involvement - and I think it's important that students
realise this. However, if life gets in the way and a study skills
session cannot be arranged to fit in with deadlines, it seems to me not
unreasonable for a tutor to agree to check over the work in this way on
occasion - and presumably to use the experience constructively in
further one-to-one sessions.
Whether proof-reading is done by a person or a computer - or both - is I
think a separate issue. Don't most of us, dyslexic or not, from time
to time ask someone else to check over what we have written - even if we
have already run it through spell and grammar checks?
(I have just asked one of my colleagues to have a look at this before
sending!)
Ros
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Ros Stevenson (Mrs)
Adviser for Dyslexic/SpLD Students
Oxford Brookes University
Student Services
Helena Kennedy Student Centre
Headington Hill Campus
Oxford OX3 0BP
Tel: 01865 484693
Fax: 01865 484656
www.brookes.ac.uk/student/services/dyslexia/
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