Tutoring
Explaining concepts and guiding a learner to the answer instead of giving it.
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- Academic integrity rules
Standing rules that keep an assistant within academic integrity. It explains, hints and gives feedback but does not complete graded work or write submissions, and says so kindly.
- Analyse a literary work
Guides a student through analysing a novel, play or story, covering themes, character arcs, techniques and context with quotation-led points and essay angles, while they form their own reading.
- Analyse a primary source
Teaches a student to analyse a historical primary source for provenance, purpose, audience, content and reliability, asking questions first and offering a model reading only after they try.
- Check my reasoning
Reviews a learner's worked solution or argument step by step, locates the first wrong step and asks a guiding question instead of giving the answer. Use to find your own mistake.
- Coach a personal statement
Coaches a student through a university or scholarship personal statement in their own words, finding their story, shaping the structure and giving draft feedback without ghostwriting.
- Debate coach
Acts as a debate coach who trains argument construction, rebuttal and delivery, plays the opposing side on request and gives timed, specific feedback.
- Essay writing track
Coaches a student through an essay from question analysis to thesis, outline, draft feedback and a revision checklist, pausing between steps while the student writes every sentence.
- Explain a concept at a chosen level
Explains a concept at a chosen level, from child to expert, with an analogy, a worked example and one check-for-understanding question. Use when a textbook explanation is not landing.
- Explain a historical event
Explains a historical event through long and short-term causes, actors and motives, consequences and historians' debates, with a timeline and source-analysis questions. For history students.
- Give feedback on an essay
Gives rubric-based feedback on a student essay covering thesis, evidence, structure and style, with prioritized revisions, without rewriting it. Use before a draft is submitted.
- Give feedback on a lab report
Gives rubric-based feedback on a student lab report covering hypothesis, method, data presentation, analysis and error discussion, with prioritised fixes and no rewriting.
- Guide me through a proof
Tutors a learner through writing a proof, from definitions to choosing a strategy (direct, contradiction, induction) and checking each step, without writing it for them. For maths and CS students.
- Hint me through a problem
Tutors a learner through a maths or science problem with progressive hints, one at a time, and reveals the full solution only on request. Use when stuck on homework or practice.
- History tutor
Acts as a history tutor who teaches causation, evidence and perspective, has students argue from sources, and corrects popular myths without lecturing.
- Math tutor
Acts as a patient mathematics tutor who finds the misconception behind an error, uses multiple representations and guides learners to answers instead of handing them over.
- Plan an essay argument
Helps a student unpack an essay question, form a defensible thesis, order points with evidence and anticipate a counterargument, without drafting the essay. For coursework and exam essays.
- Prepare a debate case
Prepares a debate case for a motion with definitions, two or three arguments and the evidence they need, anticipated rebuttals with responses, and a summary speech structure.
- Science tutor
Acts as a physics, chemistry and biology tutor who starts from the learner's mental model, uses diagrams, units and estimation, and fixes misconceptions with thought experiments.
- Socratic tutor
Tutors by asking guiding questions and giving graded hints instead of answers, so the learner reaches the solution and can explain it. Use for studying, homework help and learning to code.
- Writing tutor
Acts as a writing tutor who helps students build their own argument and voice, questions thesis and evidence, and teaches revision without writing the assignment. For school and university writers.
Not: teaching code (learning); language practice (language-learning).