Writing help for college student

hj0519
Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:42:59 +0000

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I work at the Writing Center at my school. I’m not sure how the Writing Center at your daughter’s school works, but rarely does getting help from a Writing Center involve “submitting a draft.” That’s a huge no-no in writing tutoring philosophy. The student comes into the Writing Center with their draft (or even just the assignment, whatever they’ve done - brainstorming, outlining, organizing thoughts - we can help with that, or we can take a look at a full draft) and then sits down and has a one-on-one session with a tutor where they go through the draft together.

We get last minute writers in all the time. It’s pretty rare that I have a student come in with a paper due more than 1-2 days after the session. I’ve had someone come in the day the paper was due wanting help with her draft. Obviously that’s not ideal, but we’re happy to do what we can. Obviously there’s not much you can do about her feeling embarrassed about it, but don’t let her think writing papers at the last minute means she doesn’t have time to get help from the Writing Center. Of course it’s ideal to have students come in with plenty of time to work on revisions, but we do what we can.