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I would also like to add that when I submitted my MA dissertation it was a submission requirement that some one else proof read it (for all students, not just those with dyslexia etc) before it was submitted and they were even asked to sign a form to say they had! On 01/12/05, Liz Thompson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > We've recently looked at this issue in order to give guidance to our > learning support tutors. Surely the distinction is between doing something > for the student (not allowed ) and helping them to do it for themselves > (the > basis of giving support) ? > > Regards > > Liz > > > Liz Thompson > Learning Support Officer > > Student Services > University of Brighton > Room 2, Manor House > Moulsecoomb Place > Brighton BN2 4GA > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lloyd G. Richardson > Sent: 01 December 2005 12:43 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Dyslexia support and proof-reading > > Ros, > > You are exactly right when you say that most of us ask others to check > over > stuff we have written from time to time. > > I have never regarded this as wrong. (I got my wife to proof correct parts > of my MA thesis, and I have done similar for colleagues.) But for some HE > lecturers this is a real hot potato. > > You are also right (and brave) to raise the issue of what a support tutor > should do in extremis. Last summer a dyslexic student asked me for some > 'help' with her dissertation. It was the only piece of work she had > failed > and she had to re-submit it within three weeks (she was leaving the > country > at the end of the month). > > There was no time for a skills development approach and I was very open > with > the course tutor and the student in terms of the sort of 'help' I intended > to provide. In this instance common sense prevailed. > > Regards, Lloyd Richardson > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ros Stevenson > Sent: 01 December 2005 12:01 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Dyslexia support and proof-reading > > 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 > > -- > 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/ > > **** > Bishop Grosseteste College values people and promotes equal opportunity > **** > The information contained in this E-mail is confidential and may be > subject > to legal privilege. Access to this E-mail by anyone other than the > intended > recipient is unauthorised. If you are not the intended recipient, you must > not use, copy, distribute or disclose the E-mail or any part of its > contents > or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this E-mail in > error, please notify the Postmaster at [log in to unmask] or telephone > the > IT Services Department on 01522 583664. All reasonable precautions have > been > taken to ensure no viruses are present in this E-mail system. > As Bishop Grosseteste College cannot accept responsibility for loss or > damage arising from the use of this E-mail or attachments, we recommend > that > you subject these to your virus checking procedures prior to use. > **** > -- Emma Jane Wright School of Sociology and Social Policy University of Nottingham [log in to unmask] www.accessingmaterials.org.uk