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CAE Writing Center
The Center for Academic Excellence Writing Center will help you become a better and more proficient writer and teach you skills to help when you have to write for class. Our goal is to help you acquire greater skills in grammar, punctuation, and writing.
- Before Your Visit
- If you have a working draft of an essay, please read and edit your draft before bringing it.
- Bring a draft that is either typed or neatly written, preferably double-spaced.
- Decide in advance exactly what you need help with — grammar, punctuation, thesis statement, etc. — and allow sufficient time to work on that concern.
- Be sure to allow yourself time for revision. Waiting until the last minute to bring your essay to us will only frustrate you.
- If you want a quick visit, come prepared with a few specific questions; we cannot review an entire essay without adequate time.
- Be patient. Since we work on a first-come, first-served basis, you may have to wait while we work with other students.
- How We Can Help
The Center for Academic Excellence can:
- Help you understand your writing assignments
- Help you understand a thesis
- Help you become a competent proofreader of your own work
- Discuss your paper with you during the prewriting stage
- Help you organize your paper
- Brainstorm so that you can choose a paper topic or discuss an already chosen paper topic
- Help you learn to identify and correct major problem areas in your paper's grammar, punctuation, organization, and content
- Help you document research papers, using MLA or APA
- What We Can't Help With
The Center for Academic Excellence cannot:
- Proofread or correct your paper for you. We will, however, gladly sit down and discuss your paper with you.
- Read through and correct a paper that you have dropped off
- Rewrite any portion of your paper or tell you exactly how to edit and/or properly correct your paper's final draft
- Assess your paper in terms of grading or discuss grades or faculty members with you
Fall 2024 Writing Center Workshops
Logos, Pathos, Ethos
Come to The Writing Center for a Workshop where we will Demystify Logos, Pathos, and Ethos!
- Wednesday, September 4, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Paraphrasing and Summarizing
Come to The Writing Center for a workshop on summarizing and paraphrasing; learn how to translate assigned texts into your own words.
- Tuesday, September 10, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
- Wednesday, September 11, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Thesis Statements
Come to The Writing Center for a Thesis Statement Workshop, where we will practice constructing clear and effective thesis statements.
- Tuesday, September 17, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
- Wednesday, September 18, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Incorporating Quotes into your Writing
Come to The Writing Center and learn to properly incorporate quotes into your essays and papers.
- Tuesday, September 24, 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
- Wednesday, September 25, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
