The Ohio University Learning Resource Center is a tutoring facility that features private, individual tutoring carrels and a staff of friendly, well trained peer tutors. OUL students are encouraged to call or stop by the Learning Resource Center at any time during our posted hours for more information or to make an appointment to see a tutor. Although our hours vary slightly from quarter to quarter, we are typically open from 10-5 or later, Monday through Thursday while school is in session from September through May.  We are located at 423 Brasee Hall, phone 740-654-6711 x283.

Math Tutoring
Our large staff of peer tutors in mathematics offers individual or small-group tutoring from Monday through Thursday, throughout the day. Specific hours for every quarter are posted throughout Brasee Hall and on the door of the Learning Resource Center. In addition to its resources in peer tutoring, the LRC is equipped with several up-to-date computers featuring tutoring programs in various areas of mathematics. Instructional videos made to accompany textbooks used in Math 101, 102, 113, 117, and 118 are also available and may be checked out for student use.

English and Writing Tutoring
Our staff of English and writing tutors offers individual appointments from Monday through Thursday at various times throughout the day. Call or visit the desk worker at the Learning Resource Center to select tutoring appointment times from our tutoring schedule or for walk-in tutoring on a first-come, first-serve basis. The LRC's library of books about writing and grammar is up-to-date and features some of the best handbooks of grammar, writing and style available. In addition, the LRC's computers are internet-ready and may be used to access "on-line writing laboratories" or "OWL's" as well as web sites designed to accompany writing textbooks (when these are on-line and available). Other sites useful to students of English may be accessed via these computers as well.

Other Areas
Tutors for other subjects are often available. The Learning Resource Center desk workers will work with individual professors to try and locate an appropriate peer tutor for any subject taught at OUL. Students interested in tutoring in areas outside of math and English should call or drop by the Learning Resources Center to make an inquiry. Although we make every effort to locate tutors in areas other than English and mathematics, we cannot guarantee tutoring will be available in these areas. (Of course, students may always opt to seek a private tutor for college coursework.)

Policies
In accordance with both university codes regarding academic honesty and time-proven learning strategies, the LRC follows these policies:

• We do not proofread or edit student essays. Instead, we share and discuss effective proofreading and editing strategies, develop and/or use exercises in revision and refinement of writing so that writers will feel more comfortable taking on their writing tasks.
• We do not write any part of a student's essay for him or her. However, we are happy to discuss writing projects and effective writing strategies at length.
• We do not evaluate or estimate grades. The professor or instructor of record is the only one who can do that.
• We strive at all times to an effective partner in the educational process by providing resources, discussions and strategies regarding effective writing for individual projects or writing in general.

Finally, it is important to remember that as a general rule students are responsible for doing their own work. Here is what the Student Handbook of Ohio University relays about Academic Misconduct:

Academic Misconduct
All forms of academic misconduct are prohibited by the Student Code of Conduct. Academic misconduct refers to dishonesty in examinations (cheating), presenting the ideas or the writing of someone else as one's own (plagiarism), or knowingly furnishing false information to the university by forgery, alteration, or misuse of university documents, records, or identification. Academic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, the following examples: permitting another student to plagiarize or cheat from your work, submitting an academic exercise (written work, printing, sculpture, computer program) that has been prepared totally or in part by another, acquiring improper knowledge of the contents of an exam, using unauthorized material during an exam, submitting the same paper in two different courses without knowledge and consent of professors, or submitting forged grade change slip.

If you are unsure about a question of academic misconduct, consult your instructor or the director of Judiciaries. If you are found to be involved in academic misconduct, your instructor has the option of lowering your grade or giving you an F grade on the project or in the course, and/or referring you to Judiciaries. Possible sanctions through Judiciaries are suspension, expulsion, or any sanction not less than a reprimand.

The Office of Judiciaries is in Beckley Building [main campus], Suite D, (740) 593-2629.

- Ohio University On-line Student Handbook, "Academic Policies"