 Writing Center - 246 Franklin Hall
The Columbus State Community College Writing Center is a free one-on-one tutorial service for students, faculty, and staff.
Tutors work with writers on a variety of assignments such as critical essays, research papers, reviews, résumés, formal business letters, lab reports, case studies, poems, and job applications. Tutors do not write papers, edit final drafts, or discuss grades, but they do help clients improve grammar, punctuation, organization, spelling, vocabulary, and other skills related to writing. Tutors are experts at helping clients develop confidence in their own ability to write for success across the curriculum.
Writing Center brochure
The Writing
Center is not a proofreading or editing service.
Writing
Center Hours
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Monday -
Thursday, 9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
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Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
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Saturday,
9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Tutors are available to meet with students for
one half hour appointment per day, with a
maximum of three appointments per week.
To sign up for an appointment, visit the Center at 245 Franklin Hall or call 287-5717. Please arrive on time for tutorial session and be sure to bring:
- your book
- your assignment
- your work-in-progress (journal, essay, report, etc.)
Columbus State Writing
Center
Plagiarism Policy
The college defines plagiarism as “submitting
an assignment purporting to be the student’s
original work, which has been wholly or partly
created by another student; presenting as
one’s own the ideas, organization, or workings
of another person without acknowledgement of
sources; knowingly permitting one’s own work
to be submitted by a student as if it were the
student’s own original work.
Students who knowingly violate this policy may
be denied Writing Center services.
Instructors:
May a tutor visit your classes to spread
news of our services?
During Week Two and Three of the quarter, a
tutor can visit your class to present
information about Writing Center procedures
and services. Visits take about 10
minutes.
A tutor is available to visit your class
during the following hours: M-R 8-7:30, F
8-3:30, S 9-12:30
To have a tutor visit your classroom, please
copy and submit the
Writing Center Class Visit request form
to
writingcenter@cscc./edu by Week Two of the
quarter for which you are requesting a visit.
Online tutorials
Please use the following links
to view online tutorials on these topics.
Active and Passive Verbs
APA Powerpoint Presentation
(APA) Style FAQ
(APA) Style Workshop Citing Sources in Your
Text
(APA) Style Workshop Reference List Examples
Conciseness Exercise #1
Dangling Modifiers
Irregular Verbs
(MLA) Format
Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
Making Subjects and Verbs Agree Exercises
Methods of Eliminating Wordiness
Overview of Punctuation
Overview of Punctuation Exercise #1
Parallel Structures
Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing Exercise
Quotation Marks Exercise #1
Sentence Fragments
Sentence Fragments Exercise #1
Use and Non_Use of Articles
Using Commas
Using Commas Exercise #1
Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format
For further information about the writing center, contact
Deborah Bertsch.
If you have any questions about this site, please contact
Dr. Douglas Gray, Department Web Site Administrator.
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