Writing Centers/Labs
The Writing Centers/Labs tab includes links to tips and tools addressing local and global concerns around writing from reputable institutions, as well as materials on the tutoring services available at our own Columbus State Writing Centers. If interested in using any of the sources provided in the Writing Repository, please download documents and/or copy links and add them to your Blackboard course shells. Students should not be given direct access to this instructor-facing Lib Guide. Thank you.
The Writing Centers, located in Columbus, Delaware, and Dublin, provide one-on-one tutoring services for Columbus State students, faculty, staff, and members of the Columbus community. Our Learning Support Specialists and Academic Support Leads work with writers on a variety of writing projects, such as essays, research projects, reviews, résumés, personal correspondence, academic appeals, scholarship applications, formal business letters, lab reports, case studies, creative pieces, and job applications. They can help with any stage of the writing process, from generating ideas to revising and polishing. They do not, however, write papers, serve as proofreaders, or discuss grades, but they do help writers improve organization, development, grammar, and other skills related to writing, based on the guidelines of the project.
Please check our webpage for hours of service each semester and for information on how to schedule an appointment: https://www.cscc.edu/academics/departments/english/writing-center.shtml.
Purdue Online Writing Lab provides formatting instructions, videos, and exercises on how to cite sources in MLA, APA, and Chicago. The cite is not necessarily intuitive, but for what it delivers, it is worth walking your students through how to use the cite to avoid plagiarism.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center provides a Tips and Tools page to assist with suggestions on (1) Writing the Paper, (2) Citation, Style, and Sentence Level Concerns, (3) Specific Writing Assignments or Contexts, and (4) Writing for Specific Fields. Here you will find quick reference guides for common issues students face when writing.
Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning provides handouts offering guidelines and models that illustrate how good writing works. Some of the handouts included offer assistance with body paragraphs, conclusions, composing an effective title, and working with quotations.
