🌟 Less Stress, More Success! 🌟
💻 Need help now? Hours don’t fit your schedule?
Try eTutoring with live virtual tutoring offered most days of the week—or submit a paper for feedback.
📝 Writing Lab
- Live Zoom sessions – Join a tutor for real-time writing support, with hours that include early mornings and late evenings.
- Asynchronous feedback – Submit a draft anytime and get a response within 24–48 hours.
✍️ Writing Center Tutoring — Fall Quarter 2025 Schedule
📍 In-Person in the Peninsula College Library or Online via Zoom
📆 By Appointment: Tuesdays, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
🔗 Schedule Writing Center Tutoring
📚 Research & Reading Tutoring— Fall Quarter 2025 Schedule
💡 You can also get help with reading and research from an Instruction and Reference Librarian.
📍 In Person in the Peninsula College Library or Online via Zoom 💻
📆 By Appointment:
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Tuesday, 9 a.m.—1:30 p.m.
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Wednesday, 9 a.m.—4 p.m.
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Thursday, 9 a.m.—2:30 p.m.
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Friday, 9 a.m.—12 p.m.
🔗 Schedule Research & Reading Tutoring
🧠 How We Can Help
Get one-on-one support with any writing assignment, for any class, at any stage of the writing process:
✨ Understanding academic writing
📄 Writing research papers
📚Writing about literature
❓ Clarifying and understanding assignment expectations
💡 Brainstorming ideas and getting started on a paper
🧭 Developing thesis statements
🤔 Developing your ideas and topic sentences more fully
📦 Strengthening paragraph development and structure
🔄 Summarizing and paraphrasing
🗣️ Using and punctuating quotations
🔍 Evaluating sources
📚 Citing sources in different formats (MLA, APA, etc.)
🔎 Identifying strengths and improvement areas
🧱 Organizing essay structure
💬 Supporting ideas with facts, statistics, examples, expert commentary, first-hand experience
🧍 Writing for a specific audience
✏️ Recognizing patterns of grammar/mechanical errors and learning how to fix them
🔁 Embracing the importance of and learning approaches to revision as a key part of the writing process
🎓 We Also Help With:
📝 Transfer applications
🎓 Scholarships applications and personal statements
🧑💼 Resumes and cover letters
📧 Professional emails
🌿 Writing projects for your personal fulfillment & enjoyment
👩🏫 Support for Faculty
We support instructors with:
✍️ Writing projects
👀 Proofreading and peer review
🏫 Classroom presentations
📝 Support for classroom review or workshop days
🔎 Reading & Research Support
As part of our mission to help writers grow, the Writing Center also supports reading and research skills.
📖 Reading Support
Yes—reading tutoring is helpful for college students, too!
📘 Learn strategies for reading textbooks, scholarly articles, and other academic sources
🧠 Improve comprehension and retention
📚 Adapt your reading strategies to suit different types of texts and assignments
🔬 Research Support
🗂️ Learn to navigate library databases
🔎 Find and evaluate credible sources
🧾 Understand how to integrate research into your writing
🧠 Create original, informed responses
📍 Appointments available in the library or on Zoom
🔗Students: Schedule Research & Reading Tutoring
👥Faculty: Email Tim Williams (Instruction & Reference Librarian) at twilliams@pencol.edu to schedule class sessions.
📬 Questions? Contact Tulsi Marshall at gmarshall@pencol.edu.
We look forward to supporting you! ✊🌍🌈✨