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students try to explain the assignment to the tutors, who in turn have to spend a lot of ime questioning the student. The result of what the tutor understands is necessrily an interpretation...the tutors try to keep their comments fairly broad, so as not to lead students down a specific path which might really be a misdirection." (2)

Tutors notice...that the students want to be told what the instructors, and what they must do to be correct...the students seems very impatient and baffled when they are instead met with more questions, instructions about ideas when they know they need help with grammar, or instructions to rewrite the whole paper. (2)

..we all understand that feedback from varying sourcse can be helpful, while at the same time, what matters if the studen tto find he own voice, her own dieas..." (3)

...and the tutors do, but again, w/o being sure what the facult want, the tutors respond to student writing somewhat conservatively and generally." (3)

then, some felt the tutors were giving them generic advice, rather than advice specific to their papers (have you done an outline? etc.) not understanding how there could be a writing process, a theory of writing that supplies general principles that be applied to specific writers' work." (4)