Wells College Writing Center Ruth Hagedorn Learning Commons Long Library, 2nd Floor
Procedures have changed due to Covid-19
To sign up for a tutoring session:
- Email your assignment sheet and draft to writingcenter@wells.edu
- Be prepared to share notes and/or earlier drafts
- Have a complete list of sources used in your assignment
- Share any questions, comments or concerns that might aide the tutor in assisting you
- Any comments about your writing from your instructor
What you can expect from a tutoring session:
- An encouraging and supportive resource to develop your writing
- Someone to respond to your writing with questions
- Someone to take your thinking and writing seriously
- Getting started, planning, outlining, revising
You can get assistance with:
- Understanding the assignment
- Writing with audience and purpose in mind
- Topic selection and narrowing
- Focusing a thesis
- Choosing credible source material
- Integrating source material
- Using academic citation styles such as APA, MLA, Chicago
- Developing logical structure
- Recognizing and resolving sentence-level problems
- Crafting flow, transitions and style
- Choosing appropriate words
- Developing presentations
We will not or are not able to:
- Fix the paper
- Merely proofread or copy edit
- Be experts in the content area of your paper
- Be very helpful in last-minute situations
We are here to support and empower you as a writer!