What We Do
For students:
What we do is help you:
- Help yourself to learn and use conventions of Standard English: grammar, mechanics, citation styles
- Make sense of an assignment
- Develop your ideas/thesis/argument, even if the consultant hasn't taken the class or had another class with the professor.
- Organize and structure your writing
- Design more effective sentences
- Improve introductions, conclusions, transitions and body paragraphs
- Identify the weakest elements of your writing so you can focus
- Flesh out your writing skills over a prolonged period of time
- Learn an effective writing process
What we don't do:
- Revise or "fix" your paper for you
- Proofread entire papers for grammar errors or misspellings
- Tell you what you should think
- Help significantly with a paper due in an hour or even the next day
For Instructors:
What we do:
- Visit your class to explain what the Writing Center does
- Help you learn how to teach elements of the writing process
- Together, design writing assignments to accomplish what you want
- Under your guidance, conduct peer response sessions in the Writing Center
- Discuss writing issues with you
What we don't do:
- Tell you what writing assignments to make
- Tell you how writing in your discipline should look
- Tell Writing Center clients what grades they should receive on the writing assignments you make