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What types of help might a tutor provide through an eQuestion submission?

1. The tutor can help you understand instructions to an assignment, although the tutor cannot give you the answers to that assignment.
2. The tutor can help you get started by offering some general strategies for generating ideas. When possible, the tutor will try to link the recommendations to the particular assignment. 
3. The tutor can help you refine a thesis or an introduction.
4. The tutor can offer you information on writing introductions and conclusions.
5. The tutor can help you organize ideas in the body of an essay.
6. The tutor can help you use sources correctly.
7. The tutor can provide information about specific sentence and punctuation problems.

What can't a tutor help you with through an eQuestion?

1. The tutor cannot evaluate an entire essay or writing submission within an eQuestion. It is acceptable to submit a paragraph or two, but anything longer belongs in the eWriting area.
2. The tutor cannot do an assignment for you.
3. The tutor cannot provide you with answers to questions about a specific topic (such as the causes of an historical event or the differences between two phenomena) nor can the tutor interpret a piece of literature for you. The tutor can give you guidance on the answers you develop but cannot provide those answers.
4. The tutor cannot respond to earlier submitted eQuestion or eWriting submissions (unless the eQuestion is contained in your submission). The tutor is not able to locate earlier submissions and review them again.