The “Writing Center” is an academic space where first-year writing, university students at American, Canadian, Australians, British universities attend to receive assistance at any of the 5 stages of the writing process: Brainstorming, Drafting, Reviewing, Editing and Publishing.
Why are there 5 writing stages? Linguistics researchers have stated that writing is a process in which a lot of things happen inside the minds of students. Academic writing is indeed not an easy task as there are many aspects that need to be taken into account throughout the process. Students go through each of these stages when writing their essays regardless of their major, minor, courses, etc. And, if assignment deadlines are looming closer, oftentimes students go through a series of mental, psychological, emotional stress making them feel discouraged from writing, and thus engage in easy way-out solutions that could incur in “plagiarism”, which could lead to failing the class, and in worse scenarios, being expelled from the university due to academic dishonest.
Please know know there’s always help available with the guidance of a “writing consultant.”
Bu, who is a writing consultant? A writing consultant is an academic professional who has been trained with the latest information on tutoring and teaching writing approaches, as well as being informed on new trends, cross-cultural and linguistic challenges and how to overcome them.
Writing consultants are usually trained by different academic learning support centers across American universities. Each American university, for example, has a center. Recognized writing consulting trainings are endorsed by CRLA, (College of Reading and Learning Association), an academic organization in charge of improving and standardize the support of academic learning.
This Writing Center can help students with any writing-related issue, problem, or question regarding “higher order concerns” (organization, structure, paragraph-issues, APA or MLA formatting issues), or “lower-order concerns” (grammatical issues, sentence-level problems, unclear thesis statements, parenthetical citations, punctuation issues, but we can help them at any stage of the process, really. Sessions usually run for 30-minutes to 1-hour, depending on difficulty of the project, and number of questions students may have. Sessions are mostly one-on-one meetings, but they can also be group sessions if the writing project involves a group project.
The goal of these writing tutorials is to help student-writers become better, more effective writers. Consequently, please do no expect the tutor to “write the essay” for the student. Expect no further assistance other than walking student through the tedious process that writing for academic purposes entails, one step, one question, at a time. Once again, the goal is for students to become independent thinkers and owners of their own written work, as originality is the minimum baseline in academic work.
We will ask open-ended questions, have open discussions, talk about the topics at hand to generate new, original ideas in order for the student to write unique, personal work that will meet assignment guidelines and university professors’ high expectations. But the entire written work will ABSOLUTELY be done by university students themselves.
If you are currently studying university in the United States, Canada, or taking classes in English-speaking universities locally in China, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, then we are completely sure getting help from “The Writing Center” will be the perfect solution for your writing needs.
Not only do we focus our services on university students, but we can also assist anyone with the writing of personal statements for admission to study at American universities; scholarship applications,, small business proposals, short-paragraphs, 5-paragraph essays, etc.
If you think we can be of help in your academic writing endeavor, or have inquiries regarding upcoming tutorials, courses, prices, and deadlines please reach out to us at contact@englishworldwide.net
