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Tutorial Services
The Writing Center provides tutorial services for designing, writing, and revising college essays.
Click for hours Tutors are available.
What to expect:
20 minutes... Expect a tutoring session of around 20 minutes, depending on how busy the Center is. Expect to work with us on one or two of the most serious problems with the essay; we cannot work on all of the essay’s challenges. Also, we may assign you a 10-minute exercise, to be checked by the tutor, to provide practice on your specific issues.
Try the assignment... Please try the assignment first, and then bring in a typed first draft. If you are confused about the assignment, first ask your professor.
Patience, please... Depending on time and staffing, you may have to wait for a tutor. Please do not make impolite demands for a tutor’s attention. Others also deserve our time.
The Center is only for tutoring... Visit us only to use the tutors then edit your writing. Do not socialize with friends, check e-mail, or surf the web here. Use the library for your research.
What we’ll do:
The Writing Center will help you:
- Find ways to gather material for a writing assignment
- Edit a draft of the essay
- Develop your ideas
- Find lapses in coherence, unity, and logic
- Find useful organizational structures
- Identify patterns of writing error.
However, the Center cannot cure all your writing problems in a single tutorial session.
The Center will not:
- Write or revise your papers
- Find all the errors in your paper
- Give a grade or comment on an instructor's grade
- Take responsibility for the grade you receive from your instructor.
Common problems:
- Essay brought in at the last minute before due date (we can’t help!).
- Essay was not even drafted.
- Assignment not understood because the professor was not asked about it.
- No research about the subject was done before trying the essay.
- Essay was not ‘cooled off’, reread, and edited before bringing it to us.
Bring with you:
To get the most out of a visit to the Writing Center, you should bring...
- The teacher’s assignment sheet.
- A draft of the paper (preferably typed, double-spaced).
- A copy of another paper that was evaluated by the instructor.
- A college attitude – come to the Center well before the essay’s due date to allow yourself plenty of time for revision.
Visit us at:
Ekstrom Hall, Room E-502, 203-575-8153
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Writing Center
