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