My strengths as a tutor? I can understand assignments (or at least help make them less obtuse for the students), empathize, spot grammatical mistakes, and just in general help with making the writing sound better.
Having the students read their papers aloud really helps them. They actually do catch some mistakes that way, plus it emphasizes that we're here to work with them, not for them. Lots of times when I was an undergrad I would go to my professors and ask them how to improve my work, how to get better grades in their classes. And it worked. So, I'm not afraid to ask for help; I've always gotten good results from it.
Weaknesses as a tutor? Fully explaining the whys of grammar. I know the rules, but sometimes it's hard to explain them to others. It just requires practice, I suppose. At any rate, I'm expecting a crash course in it this semester.
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