College Writing Program

Please bring your assignment and any notes or writing you have completed.

During a Writing Center session, you will typically go through the following.
Check in at the front desk and meet your consultant.
Work with your consultant to establish a goal for the session by exchanging questions and answers about the writing project you’re working on and about your writing process.
Continue the dialogue about your writing project and work towards your goal by using any of the following strategies, which may include:
- clarification of your prompt,
- brainstorming so that you have a record of your ideas as they are expressed orally,
- discussion of your central ideas,
- reading aloud of your paper,
- close examination of your thesis,
- explanation of grammar rules and usage,
- outlining of your paper,
- discussion of teacher's comments on a draft,
- work on sentence or paragraph-level style issues, and/or
- discussion of your writing strengths and weaknesses.
  
  We typically use only a few of these strategies during a session. Whichever strategies you use, you should expect to have a dialogue in which you ask and answer questions about your paper and your writing process.
Review this session with the consultant, and create a brief action plan so that you can move forward with your writing.