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The Writing CentersThe Writing Centers ( www.csbsju.edu/writingcenters) provide writing assistance for the students, staff, and faculty of our academic community. Well-qualified peer tutors offer free, individualized, intelligent response to writers and their writing questions. The Writing Centers, one on each campus, welcome writers at all skill levels; honor students, faculty, students with learning disabilities, students for whom English is a second language, first-year writers, and graduate students. Writers are welcome to bring in any piece of writing, ranging from essays, lab reports, and letters of application to works of reflection, fact, and fiction. Some writers want a one-time-only appointment for work on a particular piece of writing; others want to establish a series of appointments to achieve personal or departmental goals. During an appointment, the writer and the tutor work together to identify and meet the writer's needs. Usually writers who use Writing Center services seek help in one of three general areas: (1) initiating the writing process (talking through a topic, organizing ideas), (2) revising (refocusing the text to better support the thesis, polishing an introduction or conclusion), (3) managing conventions of standard written English (correct sentence structures, grammatical forms. In addition to the one-to-one tutoring service, the Writing Centers also offer group instruction on particular writing topics, small group workshops for writers working on the same subject or assignment, and a quick question-and-answer email hotline. Writers can make an appointment by calling one of the Writing Centers or by checking the appointment schedule outside the Writing Center door.
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