What To Expect
What to Bring
When you come to the Writing Center please be sure to bring a copy of your paper (typed or on disc, no handwritten papers please), your assignment or syllabus explaining what your professor wants you to do, your Holt Handbook (if possible) and a pen or pencil.
We do have access to your Novell accounts, Blackboard accounts and the Internet in the Writing Center--so if you’d prefer to transport your work that way, we’d be happy to accomodate you.
IF YOU ARE HAVING TROUBLE JUST STARTING YOUR PAPER, tutors can also help students with brainstorming, helping you formulate thesis statements and outlining a proper structure for you to follow when writing your paper.
IF YOU ARE BRINGING IN A PAPER FOR REVISION, please bring in the original paper with the marks and comments made by your professor. This allows the tutors to explain or clear up comments you may not understand and avoid making redundant remarks already made by your professor.
IF YOUR PAPER IS HUGE, please understand that due to time restraints, the tutors have a ten-page reading limit for papers. (This means that they can look at up to ten pages of your work per session.) You are, however, welcome to make mutilple appointments and work on different sections of your paper each time.
What Not to Bring
DO NOT BRING IN TAKE-HOME TESTS OR COMPLETE PORTFOLIOS. For obvious reasons pertaining to academic integrity, tutors cannot look at take-home tests, midterms or final exams. Tutors also cannot look at first-year English portfolios due at the end of each semester for EH111, EH121 and EH131 classes. These portfolios were to be worked on over the course of the entire semester and these final revisions are considered final exams to the English Department.