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 About the Writing Center

The Writing Center offers free help to all Union students, from freshmen writing their first College papers to seniors working on theses. We're not a proofreading service; instead, our purpose is to help you improve your own writing.   We use the same principles that good writers (and your professors!) use when they write. 

Trained student tutors listen to your concerns and work with you at whatever stage you are in the writing process. Sometimes you've completed your reading but are having difficulty getting started writing. Usually you'll come to us with a draft of a paper.  We will help you prioritize your needs,  see what works and what needs further work, and clarify your understanding of your ideas as well as learn strategies for improving as a writer. 

You may choose to work with a tutor qualified to help with writing for any subject--or with specialty tutors for help with writing in Spanish, French, German, technical writing, or philosophy.  If you can, come a few days before the assignment is due. If the paper is due in an hour or two, you won't have the time you need. 

Our Mission:  Our goal is to contribute to the college's culture of writing and academic learning, and to promote quality in expressing ideas in written language across the college and to outside audiences.  We achieve this through one-to-one tutoring and conferencing services available to all students throughout their college program and through audience-specific presentations about writing and learning.

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Academic Coaching:  Not doing as well on your exams as you'd like?  Have trouble remembering what you read?  Are you tired of "doing school" but you aren't sure how to achieve your learning goals?  Does your thinking seem out of synch with that of your professors?  Do the ways of learning that have been successful for you in the past no longer work as well?  Effective learning in college involves more than just study tips.  It involves understanding the ways of inquiry of a discipline and aligning your own strengths, goals, and strategies to learn appropriate pathways of effective learning.  Your professors understand these pathways but can find it difficult to articulate them for novice learners.   Drawing on knowledge from sociocultural theories of learning and discipline-specific rhetorics of inquiry, we can help you learn the pathways for successful learning in your courses.  Call 6680 to set up an appointment time.

Dr. Mary Mar
Director of the Writing Center