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Writing Center
Writing Center
Writing Center
NWACC's Writing Center helps you advance in your educational goals. Services include face-to-face consultations, online reviews of papers, and virtual interviews which focus on all steps in the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising and editing.
Services can help you recognize and produce cogent essays, utilize appropriate research techniques, and avoid plagiarism. Consultants will read and respond to your writing by offering suggestions on how to improve your drafts. They will not proofread or “fix” writing, write a paper for you, or tell you what grade you should receive. The center's services supplement and scaffold classroom training to ensure your assignment requirements are covered.
The center also offers support to the NWACC English faculty as they teach all levels of the composition process.
Contact Writing Center
Resources
NOTE: The Writing Center is housed in the Learning Commons, Burns Hall 1217. The center will be open from May 28 until August 1, and it will reopen at the start of the fall semester.
View the information below to learn how consultants can review your writing assignments and how to participate in writing workshops, as well as access various writing resources.
Face-to-Face Consultation
NOTE: Consultants will not be available on Fridays due to the “summer efficiency” schedule.
A consultant will be available to review papers in the Learning Commons, Burns Hall 1217, from Monday -Thursday, 11:00 am – 3:00 pm. from May 28 until August 1. Log into the Learning Commons using the kiosk by the front door, then add your name to the queue on the east whiteboard. Be sure to bring a printed copy of your draft and your assignment sheet.
Writer Resources
Browse multiple resources on documentation guides for MLA, APA, Chicago, CSE, ASA
and I-Search papers, as well as videos and grammar exercises.
E-mail / Virtual Consultation
NOTE: E-mail/virtual consultation for the Writing Center will begin on May 28, and the last papers will be accepted on July 25. Papers will only be reviewed Monday through Thursday.
Click the “Submit Your Work” box, complete the form, and attach your draft for feedback from a consultant. Only use the desktop version of Microsoft Word; do not use the app or online version of Word to submit your material. When using Google docs, be sure to convert your paper to a Word Doc before submission as PDF files cannot be reviewed. Consultants review papers Monday through Thursday only so please submit your paper by Wednesday if you need the paper for the weekend.