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Introductory Writing Workshops
These small group sessions - required for members of the first year class - introduce our services and allow us to begin a discussion of your previous writing experiences, challenges, tasks, strategies, and goals. We offer these sessions during the first week of classes.
Individual Writing Conferences
Throughout the two summer terms, we offer you individual writing conferences. During these half-hour sessions, we work on pre-writing, writing, and editing strategies. We serve as an audience for your ideas about your assignments and the written expression of those ideas. Our goal in these conferences is to address the specific writing issues evident in a particular paper and also the characteristic patterns in your writing that the paper reveals. Some of these issues and patterns will be strengths; others will benefit from our attention. Among the writing issues we deal with are organiztion, the presentation of evidence, argument, language bias, grammar, and sentence structure. Our experience has shown us that all writers can benefit from feedback on these writing issues, no matter what their level of expertise. We also offer more intensive work on writing issues common to speakers and writers of English as a second language and people with learning disabilities.
To schedule a writing conference during the summer, please come to Seelye 307. Our schedules are posted in the foyer outside the door; just sign your name in any available slot. Feel free to call us if you have any questions about the schedules.
Writing Skills Workshops
Each summer we offer small-group workshops on Overcoming Writing Anxiety, Grammar, Punctuation and Mechanics, The Serene Student (A Time Management Workshop), Writing Clearly and Concisely, and Surviving Your Thesis. Schedules for these workshops are available during orientation and we also announce them in the Luncheon Notices. (We would also like to encourage you to suggest workshop topics for us; we'd be happy to develop more workshops to address your writing needs.)
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