Writing Center

Students who have questions about their writing can come to the Writing Center (Olin 223) and get help from peer tutors or make an appointment to talk to I. Hashimoto, Director. Tutors will read rough drafts and give advice about language and organization, but they will not write papers for students or "correct" papers to make them perfect. Students who get the most out of the Writing Center should plan their schedules early in the semester, have specific questions they want answered when they give their papers to tutors to read, and never bring drafts in at the last minute and expect miracles.

The Writing Center also provides computers for word processing, style checking--and it also has a scanner, for those of you building home pages or fancy texts--and it has one of the only electric typewriters that students can use on campus.

Writing Center Hours

The Writing Center is open most of the day and up to midnight on weekdays and Sundays. In the past, we've been open these hours:

(Students should check the schedule posted on the door for exact hours or call 5182.)

Writing Center Staff

Writing Center Employment

Other Advice:

There's lots of advice out there. Here's some useful stuff:

• University of California at San Diego with links to Enclopedia Britannica entries
• Webster's Dictionary On-Line
• Mary D. Been's Annotated List of Guides for Evaluating Online Sources
• Peggy Zorn's Great Web Searching: Tricks of the Trade
• Kitty Locker's Doing Research on the Web Guide to on-line reserach
• Daedalus's Guides to the Web: Libraries
• Debbie Ridpath Ohi's Writers' Resources on the Web with links to other writers' resources.
• Michigan Tech University's Writing Center with links to other writing labs and centers across the United States
• University of Minnesota Composition Program with links to other writing labs, MLA/APA documentation, handouts
• The University of Missouri's Online Writery Advice about writing via email and an open discussion list.
• A Good Site with Links to Other Writing Sites.
• Anthony Hughes' On Line English Grammar
• Another Elementary Grammar Site
• A Nice Punctuation Site
• A Homepage on Dramatic Writing
• A Glossary of Literary Terms
• Some Discussion of Usage
• Writer's Workbench Style Program Some information on style. Includes links to other programs on diction, spelling, punctuation, etc.