Writing Center
The Cornish Writing Center in MCC 311, a free resource for all Cornish students, provides support to writers of all departments and abilities. We welcome students with both academic and professional writing projects to visit us at any stage in the process, from coming up with ideas to polishing a final draft. In our individualized half-hour sessions, writers can expect to have lively conversations with peer tutors and receive practical and friendly feedback on their work. Students are welcome to drop-in during posted hours to consult with a tutor or use to use our computer lab and printer. Contact us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or call 206-315-5806 for appointments and information.
WRITING LAB HOURS SPRING 2010
MCC 311
M 11am-7pm
W 12-7pm
T/TH 11am-4:30pm, 7:30-9pm
Thursday evening hours held in the 7th Ave Residence Hall, 1st Floor Lounge.
I WANT TO COME TO THE WRITING CENTER! HOW DO I GET STARTED?
- Drop by the Writing Center at MC311
- Email us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
- Call Amanda at 206.315.5806
HOW DOES A WRITING CENTER CONFERENCE WORK?
Our approach to helping you with your writing includes:
Clarifying the assignment or project
Identifying and addressing your aims
Attending to the focus, organization, development, and proofreading of your work
Responding to your work with questions and suggestions
Please bring the following with you:
- A copy of your assignment or reason for writing
- Any notes or drafts you have written
- What you hope to achieve in your visit to the Writing Center
WHO ARE THE WRITING CENTER TUTORS?
Our Writing Center Tutors are composed of Cornish students like you and the Writing Center Coordinator, Amanda. Peer tutors are interested and inquisitive writers, learners, and artists who are enthusiastic about working with others. They receive on-going training in writing pedagogy, peer response, and methods of tutoring.
Amanda’s specialty is rhetoric/composition and writing pedagogy. She is also a faculty member in the Humanities and Social Sciences, where she teaches courses in the study and practice of writing.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Can students bring their papers for the Writing Center for proofreading?
We will absolutely help you edit and proofread your writing. All writers need a reader to help them catch typos and notice patterns of grammatical errors. However, our purpose as a student resource is neither to do things for you nor to tell you what to write; rather we offer personalized, individual guidance to help students attain success as writers and learners. So when you come to the Writing Center to work on proofreading, expect to learn some new strategies and become a stronger editor of your own writing.
Why use the Writing Center?
We work with students to address these and other writing questions:
- Have I done what the assignment asks me to do?
- How do I make an instructor’s assignment my own?
- How do I get ideas for my writing project?
- How do I anticipate the needs of my project’s audience?
- Are all the parts of my writing clear? Do the parts connect?
- Does my writing have a direction yet?
- Have I left something important unsaid or included too much?
- How do I write using sources?
- How do I give credit to the sources I’ve used?
- How do I make effective use of Internet-based sources?
- How do I make sure I don’t have a lot of grammar mistakes?
- What resources are there for writers with disAbilities?
- How do I write a résumé and cover letter for a job application?
- What is plagiarism and how do I avoid it?
- As an ESL writer, how do I become a stronger writer in English?
ESL & INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS RESOURCES
The center provides language assistance for International and ESL students, including help with expanding vocabulary, understanding assignments, conveying ideas, understanding sentence structure, and working with verb tenses and articles. We offer one-on-one tutoring and ESL resources, both at the center and online, which are helpful for developing effective reading, writing, and speaking. Contact Amanda if you would like to make use of our ESL Resources.
On-line Resources for Learning English as a Second Language »
FACULTY RESOURCES
We invite faculty to supplement their own classroom writing instruction with Writing Center Resources by referring students to us in your assignments. We would be happy to have a representative visit your class to meet students and describe the Writing Center resources during a 5-10 minute class visit. Amanda is available to provide assistance and feedback on the creation of writing assignments, how to evaluate student writing, and discuss writing pedagogy with you.