Our Services
We are here to help you be the best writer you can be. We offer a friendly environment, tutors that help you with your writing in all of its stages, as well as computers and a printer available for your work.
- WCOnline
- What to bring to an appointment
- Course syllabus
- Writing assignment
- Relevant reading material
- Any writing in progress
- Tutors vs. Editors
- Focus on the writer’s development and establish rapport
- Make sure the writer takes ownership
- Start with higher-order concerns and worry about grammatical corrections last
- Ask questions
- Ask the writer to read aloud or read aloud for writer
- Comment on things that are working well
- Trust the writer’s idea of a text
- Keep hands off and let the writer make corrections; help them learn correctness
- Ask them their plan for revision
- Focus on the text
- Take ownership of the text
- Proofread
- Give advice
- Read silently
- Look mainly for things to improve
- Work with an ideal text
- Make corrections on the page
- Tell writers what to do
- What to Expect in the Writers' Center
WCOnline (http://www.rich36.com/aii) is the Writers' Center online appointment scheduler. You can log in by creating an account. Click Here for help with creating an account.
When you come to a session, please bring your:
Tutors...
Editors...
Adapted from: Gillespie, Paula, and Neal Lerner. The Allyn and Bacon Guide to Peer Tutoring. 2nd ed. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 2004.
Instead of editing your work, the Writer’s Center tutorial staff works hard to help you improve your writing.
You will be asked to identify why you’ve come to the Center. The consultant will ask you to explain what sort of writing you are working on, what the assignment is, and when it’s due. You’ll be asked to read what you’ve written so far and talk about the concerns you have about your writing. Then, you and the consultant will talk about your paper together.
There are no grades and no homework at the Writers’ Center. Instead, your consultant will tell you what she thinks you were trying to get across in your writing, and what parts of that writing did or didn’t work to make your intended meanings clear. You can then compare their response to what you were trying to say, and from there you can work with the consultant on ways of making sure that your writing really says what you want it to.
