Arcadia University Writing Center
The Writing Center is open from 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Friday in Taylor Hall, Room 206. The Center also has hours from 7-10 p.m., Monday-Thursday and Sunday evenings on the lower level of the Landman Library. To make an appointment, drop by Taylor 206, call 215-572-4051, or e-mail arcadiawc@gmail.com.
The Arcadia University Writing Center operates on a collaborative, peer-to-peer tutoring model. Our first priority is to make better writers, not just better writing. Through a process of open-ended talk, inquiry, and writing students begin to arrive at a better sense of themselves as writers and come to understand their own idiosyncratic writing process. This awareness helps writers adapt responsibly to a wide variety of rhetorical situations across the disciplines. Professors, graduate and undergraduate students all come to the Writing Center to meet with trained consultants. There are also consultants on staff who have received additional training in how to support ESOL writers.
In an average session, consultants meet one-on-one with students for between 35 minutes and 1 hour. During this time, the consultation will focus on 1 or 2 writing issues agreed upon by the student and consultant. While the Writing Center does assist writers in addressing lower order concerns (LOCS) like grammar, mechanics, sentence structure and citation format, our primary concern is with tackling higher order concerns (HOCS)—Thesis/Focus, Idea Development/Clarity, Organization/Structure, and Voice/Tone.
At the end of the session, the consultant will write up a report for your professor letting them know that: a) you attended a session; and b) what writing issue(s) you worked on.
The Writing Center is open to all students, in all disciplines, at all stages of the writing process. We can help you to:
- Determine audience and purpose for your assignment
- Discover a process of brainstorming/invention that works for you
- Develop your ideas clearly and fully
- Determine an organization that best suits the audience and purpose of your paper
- Write and fine-tune your thesis statements
- Critically evaluate and responsibly integrate the voices of other writers into your own writing
- Discover proof-reading strategies that will help you to turn in your best work
To make an appointment, please call 215-572-4051, drop by Taylor Hall, Room 206, or e-mail arcadiawc@gmail.com.
