Writing Center

Less Stress, More Success!

Writing Tutors available both In-person and Online via Zoom.

Fall Quarter 2024

Writing Center Tutoring Hours:

  • In Person or via Zoom: 
    • Monday—Friday, 10am-2pm
  • Virtual via Zoom: 
    • Tuesday, 5:30—8:30pm

Make an appointment now:

Schedule Writing Center Tutoring

Get help with research or reading from an Instruction and Reference Librarian.

Research & Reading Tutoring Hours:

  • In Person: 
    • Tuesday & Thursday, 11:30am-2:30pm
    • Wednesday, 12:30-3:30pm
  • Virtual via Zoom:
    • Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, 10-11am

Make an appointment now:

Schedule Research & Reading Tutoring 

How We Can Help

Get one-on-one help with any writing assignment, for any class, at any stage of the writing process:

  • Learn about academic writing
  • Writing research papers
  • Writing about literature
  • Help understand an assignment's expectations
  • Help get started with a paper and brainstorming ideas
  • Develop a thesis statement
  • Develop your ideas and topic sentences more fully
  • Paragraph development
  • How to paraphrase and summarize
  • How to use and punctuate quotations
  • Evaluating sources
  • Document and cite your sources in different formats (MLA, APA, etc.)
  • Discuss a paper's strengths and areas needing improvement
  • Organize the body of your essay
  • Support your ideas with facts, statistics, examples, expert commentary, first-hand experience
  • Write for an audience
  • Find patterns of grammar and mechanical errors and learn how to root them out and fix them
  • Importance of and approaches to revision

We also help students with:

  • Transfer application
  • Resumes
  • Scholarship application
  • Personal statements
  • Cover letters
  • Professional emails

We also work with faculty with:

  • Writing projects
  • Proof reading
  • Peer reviewing

Reading and Research Tutoring

As part of our mission to help writers improve, the Writing Center is excited to assist students (individuals and/or classes!) with research and reading. Our goal is to provide students with comprehensive support as they access information, learn from outside sources, and create original responses.

Students may use the scheduling link to Schedule Research & Reading Tutoring available in the library on the main PC campus or online via Zoom.   

Instructors may email Tim Williams, our Instruction and Reference Librarian, at twilliams@pencol.edu to schedule group or class sessions to support your students.

For more information, contact Tulsi Marshall at gmarshall@pencol.edu or (360) 417-6365. 

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