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Writing Center Services

The Charles Mills Writing Center at Nazareth College offers the following kinds of services to students and faculty:

  • On-site peer tutoring
  • Classroom workshops
  • Faculty training
  • Student writing contracts
  • Graphic design assistance and feedback

More specifically, we can:

  • Peer review your drafts
  • Help you even if you have not written a single word
  • Help identify priorities for revising your work
  • Read/decipher bad handwriting
  • Discuss (confusing) paper topics
  • Help you schedule the stages of a long term paper
  • Answer questions about APA, MLA, CMS, and CBE, or provide you with the resources to help you locate the answer
  • Help you learn how to use your handbook to look up topics about organization, structure, mechanics, and grammar
  • Listen to you talk out what you think you might want to write about

But we cannot:

  • Write on, proofread, or edit your paper (these terms are used many different ways - here it means "to work like a paid editor on your paper for you")
  • Look at your paper without you present
  • Read excessively long papers (in 30 minutes 5 pages is about the most we can cover)
  • Accept papers via email
  • Write any part of your paper for you
  • Predict, speculate, or guarantee what grade you will get