Jenzabar University

Wells College Writing Center         Ruth Hagedorn Learning Commons                      Long Library, 2^nd 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!