The Writing Center
is located in TLC 1201
Phone number:
678-839-6513
The Writing Center serves students from throughout the
University Community. The following guidelines will facilitate students’ visits
to the Writing Center:
- The staff of the Writing Center encourages students to
make appointments for tutoring two days prior to the day and time desired.
If for some reason students cannot keep their appointments, we ask that they
cancel them so that others may be scheduled.
- While walk-ins are welcome and can often be
accommodated, we cannot guarantee that an instructor or professor will be
free; of course, students with appointments will receive priority over
walk-ins.
- Tutoring sessions are for thirty minutes; appointments
for additional tutoring can be scheduled should students require further
assistance.
- Students arriving more than ten minutes late forfeit
the appointment and are considered a no-show. Three no-shows during the
semester result in the loss of appointment scheduling privileges for that
semester.
- Students should bring the following with them when
they arrive for an appointment: the assignment sheet or topic; writing
materials—pen and paper; the text(s) on which the assignment is based; and,
if students are unable to formulate a list of ideas, an outline, topic
notes, free writing, a thesis, or a rough draft, they must have, at the
minimum, an agenda that enumerates or articulates the tasks to be
accomplished during the session.
- The Writing Center exists to help students with the
writing process. Therefore, our instructors and professors tutor students in
all areas of that process—for example, with problems and concerns about
developing a thesis, organizing essays and structuring paragraphs, writing
effective sentences, incorporating transitions, addressing issues relevant
to plagiarism, and any number of additional elements involved in the writing
process.
- On occasion the recommendations and instruction
students receive in the Writing Center may, for numerous reasons, contradict
those of their classroom teacher. In these instances, the policies and
procedures of the course instructor are the “default” position.
- The Writing Center staff treats students respectfully
and courteously, and in return they expect nothing less from those students
who seek assistance there.
- quikfixwc@gmail.com
is available for specific and focused queries about grammar, usage, and
other writing problems that can be answered effectively online. While
quikfix@westga.edu cannot and is not intended to replace a session in
the Writing Center, it can help in particular and clear-cut ways when
students need a ready answer to writing questions.
Fall 2007 Writing Center hours are Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday—10:00-5:00; Thursday—10:00-3:00; and Friday—10:00-12:00