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Following are several tips to help you plan for your appointment, so you can make the most of your session with a Writing Consultant:
- If you’re unclear about an assignment or a professor’s comments on your work, meet with him/her in advance to clarify expectations or questions
- Review your assignment and any writing you’ve begun; jot down ideas, questions, and areas of concern so you have them organized and ready
- If you haven’t begun drafting your paper yet, it is often useful to engage in some “prewriting”—such as brainstorming ideas, free writing or sketching a rough outline—to get your ideas flowing before your appointment; if this is an area for which you are seeking support, this can be done during the appointment
- Have a goal of one or two key things on which you’d like to focus; there will not be time to review an entire paper during one session
- If you're working on a group and/or collaborative assignment, keep in mind the Writing Consultant is only able to help with the part you wrote; your whole group may come in for a group session, though please indicate this when scheduling the appointment
Plan ahead and allow plenty of time between your appointment and deadline for preparing or revising your paper; you may need to schedule more than one session on different days to address all of your writing concerns.
Sessions take the form of a dialogue, so plan to be actively engaged in discussing and exchanging ideas about how to strengthen aspects of your writing.
What to Bring to Your Writing Center Appointment
- Your agenda for the session—one to two key areas on which you'd like to focus
- The assignment sheet/writing prompt, so the Writing Consultant has a better understanding of the project your professor has assigned
- Any pertinent reading assignments, books, or other sources
- Any work-in-progress notes, free write, outline, or rough draft
- If you've begun writing, two printed copies of your essay (one for you and one for the Writing Consultant); note that printing is not available at the Center
- Comments or feedback provided by your instructor on an essay (if available)
- Paper for taking notes and a pencil/pen
- Only one project per session to ensure productive conferences
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