Abstract
Becoming Workplace Ready: How Small-group Tutorials Can Help is a study of small-group tutorials in an academic setting that exposes students to different types of writing that would help students to more easily adapt and adjust to on-the-job writing. A survey, along with several evaluation forms of the 109X small-group tutorial helped to show that students benefit from being a part of a collaborative group tutorial, and that many of the students felt that they had improved their writing skills, collaboration, feedback, self-editing, negotiation, and critical thinking skills. My hypothesis was that small-group tutorials, like 109X, help students to be aware of the differences in writing expectations that they will experience once they have to write professionally. The data that I collected confirmed that students felt more prepared for different types of writing and collaboration after taking the tutorial.