It’s pretty cold outside, and since the college delayed classes for tomorrow we don’t feel too bad about staying home tonight, too. Feel free to ruminate over your nouns, verbs, and adjectives from the nice, warm comfort of your rooms and make an appointment with us later in the week!
Take a quick break from studying and enjoy the Holiday Edition of the Writing Center newsletter! Good luck with finals from all of the WC tutors!
The writing center will close on Tuesday, December 14 at 10:00 p.m. for Winter Break and re-open in February of 2011. If you have any writing issues you need resolved after Tuesday we will be hosting an outreach event in the library on Wednesday, December 15th from 1:00-3:00pm, so feel free to stop by. Thanks [...]
The writing center will be closed beginning on Tuesday, November 23rd for Thanksgiving Break and will reopen for appointments on Monday, November 29th. When you get back to campus stop by with all the papers you started in your Turkey-induced haze and we’ll do our best to make sense of them together!
Check out the first issue of Syntax: The Gustavus Writing Center Newsletter here. Feel free to post a comment if you have any questions or suggestions for the newsletter. Thanks for reading & good luck with your midterm writing assignments!
It’s that time of the year again! The grass is green, the flowers are blooming, and the warmth of the sun is beckoning you to come outside and enjoy SPRING. But at the same time, you’ve got to finish up that novel, write a research paper, and study for a test (or two… or three). [...]
Throughout high school I hated writing (weird coming from a writing tutor, huh?). I thought there was no point to writing. I mean, who needs to write when one can simply say what they think? In high school I avoided all upper level English and composition classes at all costs, and figured I could simply [...]
It’s often hard to remember when I’m reading a “classic” novel or essay that the story unfolding before me did not just magically appear on the page. After all, these were the great authors, right? The people who were sprinkled with some special fairy dust that made their ideas simply take shape into words without [...]
Starting a paper can often be a daunting task. Many students find that thinking of ideas is fairly straightforward, but transferring those ideas onto paper is more difficult. Here are some strategies that I use to get started on a paper: -begin brainstorming as soon as you get a prompt. A professor of mine once [...]
Abby Travis Professor Know-it-All NDL 101: Learn it All 15 January 2010 Let’s not kid ourselves. This month is frigid in so many wicked ways. Wind that can rip your flesh off its bones. Blizzards pouring down upon you like the sand from an hourglass where everything—including yourself—is suddenly lost amongst swirling desolation and pure [...]
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