Writing Center
Our Goals
The Writing Center is intended to be an educational resource. We want
to help you become a better writer. We hope that individual conferences
will help you make progress on specific pieces of writing and learn, or
practice, general skills to apply to future writing projects.
What We Do
Writing consultants will work with you on any piece of writing, from
short papers, research papers and honors theses to graduate school
applications and resumes. Conferences can focus on different aspects of
writing: from grammar, word choice, and style to thesis development,
coherence and overall organization.
Hours and Scheduling an Appointment
Hours
The Clark University Writing Center has appointments available on
Mondays to Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. On Fridays the Clark
University Writing Center has appointments available from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m.
Scheduling an appointment
You may schedule, cancel, or change an appointment online. Please
click on the following link:
http://www.rich17.com/clarku
You also may call the Writing Center at (508) 793-7405 (on campus
x7405) to schedule an appointment.
Getting the Most Out of the Writing Center
Come early in the writing process, especially if you feel that you
would benefit from help with developing a thesis and help with the
overall structure of a paper. We're happy to work with you before you've
written anything, when you have an early draft or when you're polishing
a final draft of a writing project.
Before you come
Please plan to arrive on time! (When we are busy, we give away your
appointment if you are ten minutes late. If you must be late, call us to
tell us and we'll hold your appointment for you.)
Have a clear idea of the assignment
Bring the handout from class if there was one.
Come with a goal
Think about which aspect of the writing project you need the most help
with (e.g., brainstorming something to writer about, overall structure
of a paper, paragraph structure, specific grammatical problems).
What to Expect During Your Consultation
The beginning of conferences
The consultant will read your paper, or parts of your paper if it is
very long, and listen to what you would like to work on.
Together you will agree on the main goals for the conference.
Expect that a consultant may identify important goals that you did not
think of. Deciding what to work on in conference is a collaborative
process.
What productive conferences are like
They are interactive: A conference is productive when a student
writer actively participates by asking questions and generating his or
her own ideas for improving a piece of writing.
They are workshops: Work is done in conferences. If you come to
the Writing Center to work on sentence structure expect to write some
sentences. If you come to work on identifying a thesis for a paper
expect to generate some, discuss their pros and cons, and end up with a
number of good candidates.
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