Services and Policies
Services
- Access to Microsoft Office Software
- Free Writing Tutoring
- Computer and Printer Access
- Writing Workshops
- Online Writing Assistance
Policies
The Writing Center will:
- Assist currently enrolled students with reading or writing assignments
- Offer suggestions for improving a paper
- Offer exercises to help improve skills
- Assist students with basic use of a computer
- Provide a comfortable place to study
- Give priority of lab space to classes
- Provide assistance to students on a first-come first-serve basis
- Model the writing process through effective inventing, organizing, drafting, and revising skills
- Expect students needing help with revision to print their essays before the tutoring session
- Expect students to take notes during the tutoring session and be engaged in the tutoring process
The Writing Center will not:
- Assume responsibility for how well or how poorly a student applies the suggestions offered
- Guarantee that assignments done with lab assistance will meet the requirements of the professor
- Assume responsibility for a student's work
- Take responsibility for unsaved files lost during a computer error or outage
- Provide more than basic computer computer troubleshooting on lab computers or on personal devices
- Teach students course work taught in class
- Serve as a substitute for those who choose not to attend class
- Provide undivided attention, especially when the lab is busy
- Determine the grade or accept responsibility for the grade a student earns
- Tell students what to write or how to express their ideas
- Complete a graded assignment for a student, such as a peer review sheet
- Take appointments for tutoring sessions
- Provide paper, pens, pencils, correction fluid, cassette tapes, or flash drives
