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More Information First-Year Writing The Writing Center at St. John Fisher College

Learning Communities and the Writing Center

Students can bring paper drafts to tutorials.  However, there are many other writing and research tasks that are appropriate for a WC tutorial.  We can assist you with:

  • Understanding an assignment
  • Finding scholarly sources (using appropriate search engines)
  • Comprehending scholarly sources
  • Navigating library resources
  • Brainstorming
  • Outlining
  • Forming a thesis
  • Generating topic sentences
  • Writing organizes and coherent summaries/responses/papers
  • Using MLA/APA/Chicago Style citations
  • Creating bibliographies/annotated bibliographies
  • Revising
  • Editing
  • Checking for correct grammar
  • Revising papers for final portfolios
  • Writing cover letters for final portfolios
 Note: You may bring writing tasks from any of your current classes, not just 101.
 Note: Two or more of these tasks may be combined in order to ensure that the tutorial makes full use of  the thirty-minute time slot.

 

Department 199 and the Writing Center

Students can bring paper drafts to tutorials.  However, there are many other writing and research tasks that are appropriate for a WC tutorial.  We can assist you with:

  • Understanding an assignment
  • Finding scholarly sources (using appropriate search engines)
  • Comprehending scholarly sources
  • Paraphrasing/Summarizing articles
  • Brainstorming
  • Outlining
  • Forming a thesis
  • Generating topic sentences
  • Writing organized and coherent summaries/responses/papers
  • Using MLA/APA/Chicago Style citations
  • Creating bibliographies/annotated bibliographies
  • Revising
  • Editing
  • Checking for correct grammar
  • Note-taking strategies
  • Managing your time throughout the research and writing process
 Note: Students may bring writing tasks from any current class, not just 199.
 Note: Two or more of these tasks may be combined in order to ensure that the tutorial makes full use of  the thirty-minute time slot.

 

 

If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Theresa Nicolay, Writing Center Director, at tnicolay@sjfc.edu.