Division of Student Affairs

Learning Center

LH 234

Phone: 541-962-3663

E-mail: lcenter@eou.edu
/lcenter/

The Learning Center, located on the 2nd floor of Loso Hall, room 234, provides academic support (free of charge) to all Eastern students in the form of peer tutors who provide tutoring assistance for most first and second year courses.  Eastern students have discovered, and statistics have proven, that scheduling appointments weekly with math and writing tutors and attending study sessions regularly results in higher grades.

ALL TUTORING SERVICES ARE FREE OF CHARGE!!!

The Math Lab

The Math Lab is located in the Learning Center in Loso Hall, RM 234 and it operates exclusively on a drop-in schedule. The tutors in the Math Lab are undergraduates who strive to guide the learning of the students they work with. Whether it is a one-on-one interaction or a collaborative situation with a group of students, they will do their best to give you the math and study strategies that will help you to succeed in your current and future math classes at EOU.

We want to encourage you to work as wisely as possible with our math tutors. It can become very easy to get over-dependent on their assistance and get a false impression of how much you are really learning. Do as much work as you can on your own and collaborate with your classmates in the lab before seeking the assistance of a tutor. More often than not, our tutors are successful not because of the questions they answer for you but the questions they ask of you to get you on the right track.

How can I become a Math Tutor?

We rely on our math faculty to recommend students they recognize as having the necessary abilities to become a good math tutor. If you have completed Math 251, let your professors know you are interested in working in the Math Lab.

The Writing Lab ~ Because every writer needs a reader!

How to use a Writing Tutor

You will need to sign up at least a day in advance with any of our well trained writing lab tutors. Students currently working as writing tutors have taken or are currently enrolled in WR 220, Methods of Tutoring Writing. If your paper is 8 pages or longer, please consider signing up for two, back-to-back, 30 minute conferences with the same writing tutor. 

• We’ll read your paper along with you and discuss choices in expressing your ideas. 
• We’ll teach you to revise, edit, and proofread so you’ll become more independent. 
• We’ll offer suggestions to improve your writing but can’t guarantee you a grade. 
• We’ll suggest research sources and methods but we can’t do it for you. 

How can a Writing Tutor help me?

A writing tutor reads and responds to a draft of your paper, essay, or lab report in order to provide you with a fresh-eyes perspective. By asking questions and making comments, a writing tutor can help you focus, develop, clarify, refine & organize your writing. The conversation with the writing tutor is designed to bridge the gap between everyday language and academic discourse, allowing you to gain confidence and control in a comfortable setting. In your conference, you can try out your ideas on a real reader. 

• You may think of it as practicing before the game, rehearsing for the performance, or trying on words and structures until they suit you and the rhetorical occasion. 
• You are responsible for your own writing. 
• You can -- in fact, you must-- make your own choices about how much and what sort of revision you will do. 

Writing tutors are not teaching assistants who instruct you on the subject matter of a particular course. In a conference, you are the expert on the course material while the writing tutor points out patterns of grammatical error and stylistic problems, but they do not proofread or edit copy as if a draft were a final product.  They will share editing techniques with you if you ask.

Learning Center Computer Lab

• Computers in the Learning Center are available for student use.
• Student Lab Assistants are available to assist with your questions.
• The Lab contains 19 computers. Three computers have scanners available.
• The computers are connected to 2 HP laser printers.
• You can buy paper or bring your own.
• A color printer is available.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our office, between 8am-5pm Pacific time, for further assistance.