Carnegie-Vincent Library

Peer Tutors Referral form

1. Instructor's Name(required)
2. Course(required)
3. Student's Name(required)
4. Date of referral(required)
5. Send a confirmation email to this address
6. Should meet with peer tutor by this date:(required)
7. Services (Please check all that apply)
8. Citation
9. Plagiarism
10. Source Evaluation
11. Basic Database Searching
12. Other (Please describe)

 

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Definitions

Citation: assistance properly formatting in-text citations and references/works cited pages in APA, MLA, or other styles.

Plagiarism: assistance and training on avoiding unintentional plagiarism; properly quoting, paraphrasing, and constructing arguments using outside sources.

Source Evaluation: assistance selecting appropriate sources for a paper/project; avoiding inappropriate websites, distinguishing popular from scholarly sources, [guiding toward more appropriate web sources and sources available through library databases].

Basic Database Searching: assistance accessing and searching library databases for periodicals, books, and other materials needed for [most general education] class assignments.