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The AWC is a place for consultancy. The most accomplished writers, even famous authors, worry about what to write, how to write, or how to get started. Writing is a lonely experience, but here at our Center, we are planning to make the writing process a less lonely experience for you. Talking about your writing task can relieve you of the anxiety that the act of writing can produce.Taking this into consideration, writing tutors will:

  • deliberate with you on your writing
  • talk with you about possible strategies you can use
  • help you discover new ways of approaching your writing assignments
  • offer personal help with planning, revising and any other stage of your writing
  • work with you to help in the guide you through the development of revision and editing strategies that can last a lifetime

    In this Center you will learn about:

    • getting started
    • brainstorming
    • exploring ideas
    • planning
    • writing drafts
    • focusing and connecting ideas
    • analysis, reasoning, and errors in reasoning
    • quoting
    • paraphrasing

 

  
  • editing strategies (editing drafts, editing for clarity and style)
  • punctuation, sentence structure and mechanics
  • documentation (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.)
  • citing electronic sources (MLA, APA, etc.)
  • using sources effectively
  • style

The AWC is not a place for editing. The AWC is a center where individual advice is given on any piece of academic writing and where weak points are determined and help is provided accordingly.

Therefore, writing tutors DO NOT :

  • do translations
  • write a paper for a student
  • do last-minute grammar checking, editing or proofreading
  • dispute or question the grade a teacher has given to a student's paper
*** THIS IS NOT A CENTER FOR PROOFREADING, REWRITING OR TRANSLATING A FINISHED TASK. THE AWC WILL BE A CENTER WHERE YOU GET INDIVIDUAL ADVICE WHILE YOU WORK ON A PIECE OF WRITING, AND WHERE WEAK POINTS ARE DETERMINED AND HELP PROVIDED ACCORDINGLY.