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Come to the Writing Center!

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!

Contact Information

The Writing Center is located in the Learning Commons, Long Library, 2nd floor 
 
 
Elizabeth Rivera, MS, MFA
Coordinator, Writing Center 
Instructor, Writing
erivera@wells.edu 
phone:315.364.3250
 

 

 
 

 

Recruitment Opportunity

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Writing/Peer Tutoring Center

Keep this pocket guide to basic MLA, APA, and Chicago format with you when writing papers!

 

(.docx, 12K)

Learn the basics of MLA, APA, and Chicago formatting and citations.

(.pptx, 778K)

Review this grammar PowerPoint covering 

  • Who vs. Whom
  • That vs. Which
  • Passive vs. Active Voice
  • Semicolons
  • Colons
  • Commas
  • Oxford Comma
(.pptx, 4234K)

Test your skills in this grammar jeopardy powerpoint! 

Note: the hyperlinks only work in "present" mode. 

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