Writing Center

The Writing Center is here to help students improve their writing skills and to provide them with feedback on written assignments.

A student may drop in or call ahead to make a 30-minute, one-on-one appointment with an instructor. Making an appointment in advance ensures an instructor's availability.

The center is available to all students working on any writing assignment, in any stage of the writing process.

The Writing Center is located in Bowman Library. To make an appointment,
please stop by the center or contact Director Katie Flynn at:
kflynn@menlo.edu or x3849. Our hours of operation are:

Consultation Hours

Monday - Thursday 11am - 5pm
Friday 11am - 2pm

Drop-in Only Hours

Sunday - Thursday 7-9pm
(Tuesdays at Study Slam in the Russell Center)

ESL Learning Lab

Tuesday 2:30 - 5:30pm
Thursday 3:30 - 5:30pm

Policies

The Writing Center offers Menlo College students one-on-one interactive consultations designed to improve their writing skills. Consultations may focus on grammar, organization, style, and/or structure. Each session is tailored to the individual student's concerns. However, a student should not necessarily expect to get through an entire paper in one session; consultants will try to focus each session on one or two major concerns.

Consultants do not "fix" papers for students.

Though consultants are happy to focus on grammar and revision, the Writing Center is not a proofreading service. Consultants do not "fix" the work of students, but instead show them how to do this for themselves.

Consultants will work only with writers and their texts.

They will not tutor someone who brings in a friend's, a roommate's, or a classmate's writing.

Students are limited to one 30-minute appointment per day.

Consultations are limited to 30 minutes per day because too much information or too lengthy a session can be overwhelming for a student. If a student would like more help, he or she is encouraged to sign up for an additional session on another day. The writing consultants are more than happy to meet with students multiple times before an assignment is completed.

If a student shows up late for an appointment, he or she forfeits the session.

Since there is high demand for help with writing, a student who arrives late to a session can expect that the writing consultant will be busy with another student.