The AWC is a place for consultancy. The most accomplished writers, even famous authors, worry about what to write, how to write or how to get started. Writing is a lonely experience, but here at our Center, we aim to make the writing process a less lonely experience for you. Talking about your writing task can relieve you of the anxiety that the act of writing can produce. Taking this into consideration, writing tutors will:
- deliberate with you on your writing
- talk with you about possible strategies you can use
- help you discover new ways of approaching your writing assignments
- offer personal help with planning, revising and any other stage of your writing
- work with you to help you develop revision and editing strategies that can last a lifetime
In this Center, you will learn about:
- getting started
- brainstorming
- exploring ideas
- planning
- writing drafts
- focusing and connecting ideas
- analysis, reasoning and errors in reasoning
- quoting
- paraphrasing
- editing strategies (editing drafts, editing for clarity and style)
- punctuation, sentence structure and mechanics
- documentation (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.)
- citing electronic sources (MLA, APA, etc.)
- using sources effectively
- style
The AWC is not a place for editing. The AWC is a center where individual advice is given on any piece of academic writing and where weak points are determined and help is provided accordingly.
Therefore, writing tutors DO NOT:
- do translations
- write a paper for a student
- do last-minute grammar checking, editing or proofreading
- dispute or question the grade a teacher has given to a student's paper
*** THIS IS NOT A CENTER FOR PROOFREADING, REWRITING OR TRANSLATING A FINISHED TASK. THE AWC IS A CENTER WHERE YOU CAN GET INDIVIDUAL ADVICE WHILE YOU WORK ON A PIECE OF WRITING, AND WHERE WEAK POINTS ARE DETERMINED AND HELP PROVIDED ACCORDINGLY.