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Less Stress, More Success!
Winter Quarter Writing Tutors available:
- Both In-person and Online (Zoom): Monday - Thursday, 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Make an appointment now - https://pencol.as.me/writing-center
We also offer a NEW Drop-in, No-Appointment-Needed session. Just stop by the Writing Center to get face-to-face help. This peer tutor (student-led) session is available Tuesdays and Fridays from 9am-10pm! Please note that there is no online component to these sessions.
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
For more information contact John Anderson via email at janderson@pencol.edu