English Area

Office: Room 329, Davies Hall
Phone: (916) 484-8101
Fax: (916)484-8867

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What the Writing Center can do for students:

• Teach students techniques that will enable them to write better sentences, paragraphs, and essays.
• Help students improve their knowledge of English grammar, usage, mechanics, and punctuation.
• Help students understand and practice the writing process and the steps involved from idea to final draft.
• Help students sharpen their critical thinking especially as it applies to expressing themselves in writing.
• Teach students techniques to generate and organize ideas for writing assignments.
• Teach students research techniques and research paper writing techniques, including citing and compiling sources and research paper formats.
• Make students more confident in their ability to express themselves in writing.
• Provide one-on-one instruction and assistance and constructive feedback for all work done in the Writing Center.
• Allow students to progress at their own pace.
• “Customize” modules to allow students to substitute writing assignments from other classes across the disciplines for the regular writing assignments in their modules.
• Provide access to and operation assistance for Macintosh and Gateway computers in the Writing Center area of the LRC.

What the Writing Center DOES NOT do:

• The Writing Center does not assist “drop-in” students. Because we must serve over 400 enrolled students each semester, we are not able to accommodate students who need “on the spot” help but are not enrolled in the program. In particular, students cannot get papers checked and errors corrected by Writing Center staff.

For more information contact the Writing Center at 484-8696