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In-Person and Online Tutoring Services for Students
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What is In-Person Tutoring? An in-person tutoring appointment is most ideal for you as a writer: the face-to-face session gives you the opportunity to hear your work read aloud, ask questions, and learn new skills. While each appointment lasts 30 minutes, you have the option to request 1-hour appointments.
What is Online Tutoring? An online tutoring session is a 1-hour, real-time consultation with a writing consultant. The online sessions have been designed for students who work full-time or have family commitments. Without leaving the workplace or home, student-writers have the opportunity to meet with writing consultants in a manner that honors their responsibilities outside of school. It is important to know, however, that online appointments are not designed for sessions focusing on grammar. When scheduling an online appointment, please be aware that our tutors can help you only with content. If your concerns are limited to grammar, you will need to make a face-to-face appointment.
How Will Your Professor Know When You Have Used Our Services? At the end of each session, the tutor provides you with a gold-colored confirmation slip to serve as proof of your visit. While many student-writers are not required to seek writing assistance by their instructors, they often choose to attach the slips to their final papers as evidence of their investment in the assignment. We also have online confirmation notices via e-mail for online appointments and/or classes.
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For a scheduled appointment, you are expected to arrive on time. If you are 5+ minutes late, a walk-in student may take your reservation. Additionally, you should bring the following items to your appointment:
As a matter of courtesy, we ask that you cancel and/or reschedule a reservation at least 24 hours prior to your appointment. This allows other students the opportunity to work with a consultant during the particular time. To cancel/reschedule, access the online appointment book via your WOU Portal:
You can also call us (503.838.8286) or email us (writingcenter@wou.edu) to cancel an appointment.
When you fail to show for a scheduled appointment, you will be marked as a no show. After three no shows, you will no longer have access to the online appointment book for the duration of the quarter. Access will be reinstated at the start of the following term.
Your Professors Will Require You to Write in Your Major Your professors recognize the fact that writing is an important tool for learning and discovery as well as for conveying what has been learned and discovered. They also know that you will develop proficiency as a writer when you have frequent opportunities to write in courses in your major. Your professors share the responsibility for helping you learn the conventions and rhetorical practices of your discipline or area of study. This means that writing instruction will be continuous throughout your undergraduate education, and instructors will provide you with meaningful feedback and opportunities to revise.
The Writing Center is a free academic-support service with one goal: to help you succeed on your college writing assignments. Staff members represent a range of majors, including American Sign Language, Anthropology, Biology, Education, History, Music, Philosophy, and Psychology, to name a few. Each consultant is an exceptional writer and possesses a wealth of knowledge about courses, professors, and writing expectations in the major.
Discipline-Specific Styles Guides A style guide contains a storehouse of information about the writing-related requirements of a particular discipline, professional organization, and/or publishing house. Guides include information with regard to editorial style, formatting, punctuation, citations, and reference lists. College instructors require you to use particular style guides in their courses, and the list below offers an overview of guides which are currently utlized at Western:
Specialized Writing Support for International Students We are privileged to welcome you, as international students, to Western Oregon University, and we value the wealth of cultural diversity that you bring to campus. We recognize that you may face difficulties with course content and culturally different classroom expectations because you have limited experience studying in English. We would love to offer you support in your academic writing through the following services.
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Specialized Writing Support for Spanish Speakers Western recognizes you as an outstanding student group on campus. Your population is not only steadily growing at WOU but throughout Oregon schools; in fact, experts say that by the year 2014, two in every ten high school students will be Spanish speaking. With appropriate training, you can use your knowledge of Spanish to learn English. The Writing Center specializes in teaching you how to use your native language to become better English writers. The writing tools you learn from us will not only help you to do well on your class assignments but will prepare you to succeed in your education and beyond.
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Choosing the Best Tutor for Your Assignment One of the best things about the Writing Center is that we hire consultants from a variety of majors. Our tutors truly reflect the diversity of majors on our campus. From Psychology to Community Health to Anthropology, we can help you find the perfect tutor for you! Selecting a tutor in your subject area is extremely beneficial for the following reasons:
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