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Contact Information: University Writing Center 414 E. Clark St. Dakota Hall 226 Vermillion, SD 57069 phone: 605-677-5626 wcenter@usd.edu Last Modified: 05/28/08 |
Summer 2008 Writing Center Availability Hours: Monday through Thursday, 12:00-2:00 pm (June 2 through July 31) Location: I.D. Weeks Library's Reference Area, First Floor Schedule: Visit http://www.usd.edu/wcenter/owc_schedule.cfm to view consultant availability. To schedule an appointment this summer, e-mail wcenter@usd.edu or drop by the Writing Center table in the reference area of I.D. Weeks Library during our hours. You may try calling 677-5626 on weekdays between 10:00 and 2:00, but e-mail will work better. Our Mission The University Writing Center's mission is simply to make better writers. The UWC staff seeks to help make positive changes to students' and faculty's/staff's writing practices. Those who seek our assistance may leave a Writing Center session with a better draft but the primary goal of the UWC is for students and faculty/staff to become better writers overall. The USD Writing Center assists student writers enrolled in courses at the University of South Dakota in developing their individual writing skills as well as any faculty/staff who would like a second set of eyes on a piece of writing. Any USD student, faculty, or staff may come to the UWC for individualized writing instruction for any writing, whether academic, personal, creative, business, undergraduate- or graduate-level. What the Writing Center does Writing consultants work with writers to help them with any part of the writing process, including prewriting, organizing, developing paragraphs, revising, or reviewing sentence structure and areas of grammatical weakness. Consultants will provide explanatory sheets and perhaps necessary exercises on specific areas of writing. Consultants can assist writers in the correct documentation of their writing, whether MLA or APA. The UWC also offers individualized and group listening and speaking sessions for students, faculty, or staff who are non-native speakers of English and (for students) are enrolled in English writing or language courses. What the Writing Center Does Not Do Finally, writers should be prepared to talk about their writing. As difficult as it may seem, writers should identify the weaknesses in particular parts of the text; the consultant can't just guess that a writer needs help with pronouns, sentence structure, or subject-verb agreement. The most effective sessions are those in which both the writer and the consultant are involved. Hours of Operation (Summer 2008):Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays 12:30-2:00 pm in I.D. Weeks Library's reference area, first floor. Online Writing Center is closed until September. |
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