Empowering TRU Students in Writing Skills

Providing free services by skilled students, volunteers, and faculty to help TRU students become better, more confident writers. Offering one-on-one instruction, feedback, and assistance with revising and editing to enhance writing skills. Appointments can be made to receive personalized assistance and guidance in improving writing projects at all levels.

• Writing skills
• TRU students
• Feedback
• Revision
• Writing assistance

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1. helping TRU students become better, more confident writers

2. Services free service staffed by skilled students, community volunteers and faculty provides: -one-on-one instruction -feedback for all levels and types of writing -helps you learn to revise and edit Goal: to help you become a better, more confident writer.

3. In a session we: teach you to improve your writing skills point out gaps and problems help you to learn to proofread and edit model the writing process discuss and question

4. Appointments register www.tru.ca/writingcent re/disclaimer.html make an appointment tru.mywconline.com/

5. Appointments what you need to bring: -questions and ideas -your assignment from your instructor -a draft of an assignment -an assignment that you have received back with feedback

6. Percentage of Appointments by Levels Levels Winter14 ESAL 4 4% ESAL 5 6% Grad 6% ESAL 1-3 1% Fac 0% Pre-MBA/PBac 12% UPREP 4% Yr 4 9% Yr 3 8% Yr 1 42% Yr 2 8%

7. Types of Feedback understanding assignments and readings generating ideas and finding a focus finding research and citing sources types and formats of writing group projects

8. Feedback cont. any step in the writing process summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting and avoiding plagiarism sentences, grammar, punctuation, diction, mechanics and spelling presentations and more Grammar Structure Content Style

9. Resources Texts and reference books: writing in the disciplines academic writing handbooks citation guides grammar and more Online: Writing Centre Website Writing and Citation Support Website

10. Hours of Operation January 12 April 17, 2015 Monday - Thursday Friday Monday and Wednesday 7:00pm 9:00pm 9:00am 4:30pm 9:00am 3:00pm On Monday and Wednesday nights the Writing Centre is located in the House of Learning, on the first floor, by the computers.

11. For Writing Tips and More Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/TRUWriting Like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TRUWritingCentre Check out our Blog http://writing.inside.tru.ca/ Watch our videos on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/TRUWritingCentre

12. Questions Who offers help in the Writing Centre? What do you need to bring to the Writing Centre? How long is a tutorial session? Where is the TRU Writing Centre? What is the goal of the Writing Centre? 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.