Writing Center
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Most colleges, universities, and many secondary schools maintain a writing center that provides students with free assistance on their papers, projects, and reports from trained professionals, consultants, or peer tutors. A key goal of any writing center is helping writers to learn. Typical services include help with purpose, structure, and organization of writing and are geared toward writers of all levels and fields of study. In general, writing centers also offer assistance with grammar and syntax and citation of sources for research papers using one of various recognized formats, such as MLA, APA, or Turabian. Nevertheless, writing centers coach students rather than doing their work for them even in dealing with apparently mechanical aspects of writing.
A writing center usually offers individualized conferencing whereby the writing tutor offers his or her feedback on the piece of writing at hand; a writing tutor's main function is to discuss how the piece of writing might be revised. However, the tutor usually does not proofread nor edit the student's work. Instead, the tutor facilitates the student's attempts to revise his or her own work by conversing with the student about the topic at hand, discussing principles and processes of writing, and/or modelling rhetorical and syntactical moves for the student to apply. Some institutions also offer an Online Writing Lab, often abbreviated as OWL, which generally attempt to follow the model of Writing Center tutoring in an online environment.
A recent movement in writing centers has been to provide services for the non-academic community. Such services include one-to-one response for out-of-school writers and workshops on a wide variety of topics.
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- Rhode Island College Writing Center
- International Writing Centers Association
- University of Central Florida University Writing Center
- Michigan State University Writing Center
- University of Richmond Guide to High School Writing Centers
- University of Richmond Writing Center and WAC Program
- Texas A&M University Writing Center
- Purdue University Writing Center
- Western Oregon University Writing Center
- University of Houston Writing Center
- University of Texas at Austin Writing Center
- University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Writing Center
- Community Access & Retention Program at San Francisco State University
- Arizona State University Learning Resource Center
- Dallas Baptist University Writing Center
- Alphabetized list of Writing Centers
- University of Kansas Writing Center
- St. Cloud State University Writing Center
- Gavilan College Writing Center
- Sam Houston State University Writing Center
- International Writing Centers Association
- Salt Lake Community College Community Writing Center
- University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center
- Brigham Young University Writing Center
- Shasta College Writing Center
