Writing Center Services for Mt. SAC Students: Part II--WORKSHOPS

THE MT. SAC WRITING CENTER OFFERS 3 MAIN STUDENT SERVICES:

TUTORING

WORKSHOPS

COMPUTER LAB



Like our tutoring service, The Writing Center's workshops are aimed at improving students' writing skills in conjunction with what they are learning in their courses. Our workshops are offered on a repetitive basis throughout the academic year and are taught by Writing Center staff or English Instructors. Students can choose from the following workshops:

1. APA Style



2. Developing Your Sentence Style



3. Easy Steps to a Great Thesis



4. Fixing Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices



5. How to Write an Essay in Two Hours (Timed Writing)



6. Keys to Better Paragraphs



7. MLA Documentation and Citation (Research Workshop Part III)



8. On Course: Success Strategies for Writing



9. Overcoming Writer's Block: Tips for Getting Started



10. Plan Your Essay in Three Easy Steps



11. Starting Your Research(Research Workshop Part I)



12. Using Quotations and Paraphrases Effectively (Research Workshop Part II)



13. Writing the Personal Statement (located in the Career and Transfer Center, Bldg. 9B)
    

During workshops, students have opportunities to work on various writing activities, take home writing tools such as handouts and outline templates, and ask workshop instructors questions about their assignments.

After attending a workshop, one student reported, "I understand that the most important key to success is preparation. This is something that I have struggled with for a long time (i.e., procrastination) but I believe that this workshop helped mold me into a better student." Come to a workshop and see for yourself!

Workshops are FREE to all Mt. SAC students and are 60-75 minutes. All workshops, with the exception of The Personal Statement, are located in The Writing Center's computer classrooms inside Bldg. 26B, 1561A. Please call 909.594.5611 x5325 for more information or to sign up for a specific workshop. Click here for a calendar and workshop descriptions: http://www.mtsac.edu/instruction/humanities/writingcenter/writing-workshops.html

All workshops are supported by a Title V grant.

~Posted by Nicole Blean

Writing Center Services for Mt. SAC Students: Part I--TUTORING

THE MT. SAC WRITING CENTER OFFERS 3 MAIN STUDENT SERVICES:

TUTORING

WORKSHOPS

COMPUTER LAB

PART I--TUTORING: The Writing Center's tutoring service is available to any Mt. SAC student working on a writing assignment from any course. During tutorials, tutors can help students improve their writing skills by focusing on "global issues" such as strengthening their thesis statements, developing their sentence style, and clarifying their ideas, among other concepts. Our mission is to help students become better writers.

In order to dispel any misconceptions (or student fantasies!) about tutoring, we must be clear that we are not an editing service. We do not help students if we edit their papers for them. We do help by reviewing students' papers with them paragraph by paragraph, utilizing our 50+ handouts, and consulting grammar and documentation handbooks to show students options for revision.

Students using the Writing Center (or WC, for short) should come 5 minutes early for their appointments to fill out a goldenrod colored DLA sheet (Directed Learning Activity). Sounds complicated, but this form simply helps students to focus on the most important concepts they would like to work on during their 30 minute tutorials.

Coming next week . . . Part II: Workshops. In the meantime, happy tutoring!

~Posted by Nicole Blean