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Professional Writing Counselors provide individual conferences for students working at any stage of the writing process. The Counselors serve as an audience for the students' ideas and the written expression of those ideas. During a conference, typically a half-hour long, the student can work on issues of organization, evidence, argument, style, paragraph development, sentence structure, language bias, or whatever issues the writing task presents. The Writing Counselor helps the student recognize and address the characteristic patterns in her writing that the paper reveals.
The Counselors provide more intensive work on writing issues common to speakers and writers of English as a second language and those with learning disabilities.
In the evenings, Peer Writing Assistants (students) perform a similar service at several campus locations.
You will find the Writing Counselors' appointment schedules displayed on the Jacobson Center reception desk. Half-hour appointments are available Monday through Friday between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. You may sign up for any open slot. Once you've made an appointment with a Counselor, try to leave a draft of your paper beneath his or her schedule. If the Counselor has your paper in advance, he or she can give it a detailed and thorough reading, but Counselors will work with a paper at any stage, be it a well-crafted draft or a still amorphous jumble of ideas seeking shape. Because the demand for appointments increases as the semester progresses, you should plan ahead and sign up early. If you should have to cancel an appointment, please call the Center. We often have a waiting list of students seeking appointments. Writing counseling is available free of charge to all Smith students and any student currently enrolled in a class at Smith.
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