Co-ordinator: Emmy Misser, MA, Ext. 3339
E-mail: <emisser@mach1.wlu.ca>
Office Location: Room 2C5-B, Second Floor, Arts Building
Office Hours: Monday to Thursday, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Web Site: <http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwwc/>

The Writing Centre offers free, individual writing instruction to all Laurier students. Appointments are made in advance and students may bring either previously marked papers or papers in progress for a critical review.

Appointments last about 45 minutes, and in that time students will have the major strengths and weaknesses of their paper assessed, have a tutorial session on how to revise it, and discuss long-term goals for improvement of their writing skills. These goals include the possibility of setting up a series of appointments to work on specific areas of difficulty.

The purpose of the Writing Centre is to encourage students to see writing as a way of learning, as an essential component of the critical and analytical thinking skills so important for academic success. The focus of a tutorial at the Writing Centre is therefore to help students understand how they can develop and revise their ideas clearly and logically in English that is precise, coherent and correct.

The Co-ordinator of the Writing Centre gives discipline-specific class presentations on request. Generic writing presentations are tailored to suit the needs of each specific course and range from one to two visits to the development of a graded writing component in a course.

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Comments to the Editor: M. Watson, Office of the Registrar