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Locations
The Writing Centers are located in the Boggs Humanities Building (Room 101) on the Fulton Campus, the Purvis Center (Room 116) on the Tupelo Campus, and online http://www.iccms.edu/info/writing_center/online.asp.
Availability
Priority will be given to English Composition I (1113) students in the spring semester of 2008 and English Composition I and II (1113 and 1123) students in the fall semester of 2008. The Writing Centers will serve all students of the College beginning in 2009. Whenever possible, service will be provided to students in writing intensive classes beyond English Composition I in the spring of 2008.
Services
The Writing Centers assist students by providing the following services:
- Evaluations of drafts and feed back about choices made in writing
- Identification of global and sentence level errors to help students make corrections on their own
- Support in implementing phases of the writing process—planning, drafting, and revising
- Help in writing letters of application and other documents related to employment
- Referrals to grammar and reference resources (in-house and online)
Hours of Operation
The Fulton Writing Center is open from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. in the Boggs Humanities Building and from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Monday through Thursday in the Periodical Room Annex at the Learning Resource Center. The Tupelo Writing Center is open from 9:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. in the Purvis Center and from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. on Monday through Thursday in the Learning Resource Center classroom. The Online Center is open 24/7, and faculty tutors are available twelve hours per week to assist students. Services of Smarthinking, Inc. are also available for the Online Center, as well as the on-campus Centers.
Appointments
Help for walk-in tutoring sessions is available but not guaranteed. To be sure tutoring is available call 662-862-8160 or sign up at a Writing Center at least twenty-four hours in advance. Each session will last about thirty minutes.
What to Bring/Submit
Bring your assignment sheet so that the tutor can determine the expectations for the writing task. Before the session, read the assignment carefully and make notes. Bring two copies of any drafts you may have written in advance, and bring your sources. If an instructor has referred you to an on-campus Writing Center, bring the referral sheet, or submit it by email along with your draft to be evaluated if you have been referred to the Online Center. (Use Microsoft Word for all online submissions.) Address for the Online Center submissions are Mr. Larry Armstrong (ldarmstrong@iccms.edu).
What Tutors Do
- Review the assignment with the student
- Read any work the student has prepared in advance
- Ask and answer questions
- Work with the student to improve writing skills (The object is help the student become a better writer rather than simply “fixing” the current assignment.)
- Respond to work submitted through the Online Writing Center
What Tutors Do Not Do
- Grade student papers
- Correct or proofread for sentence-level errors
- Re-write passages
- Guarantee that online submissions will be returned in fewer than twenty-four hours
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