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Writing & Academic Literacy Center
Writing & Academic Literacy Center
Writing & Academic Literacy Center
NWACC's Writing & Academic Literacy Center helps you advance in your educational goals. Services include face-to-face consultations, online reviews of papers, and virtual interviews which focus on all steps in the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising and editing.
Services can help you recognize and produce cogent essays, utilize appropriate research techniques, and avoid plagiarism. Consultants will read and respond to your writing by offering suggestions on how to improve your drafts. They will not proofread or “fix” writing, write a paper for you, or tell you what grade you should receive. The center's services supplement and scaffold classroom training to ensure your assignment requirements are covered.
The center also offers support to the NWACC English faculty as they teach all levels of the composition process.
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Resources
View the information below to learn how consultants can review your writing assignments and how to participate in writing workshops, as well as access various writing resources.
Note: THE WRITING CENTER WILL BE CLOSED FOR BOTH EMAIL AND F2F CONSULTATIONS FOR SPRING BREAK, MARCH 20-26. PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT PAPERS AS THEY WILL NOT BE REVIEWED DURING THIS TIME.
Face-to-Face Consultation
A writing center consultant will be available in Burns Hall, room 1003 to review papers on Mon. and Wed., 10 am - 3 pm and Tues. and Thurs., 9 am -1 pm on a drop-in basis. Be sure to bring a printed copy of your draft.
Writing Workshops
View the workshop schedule to see the dates and topics of the workshops being held
throughout the semester. There are three workshops per week.
Writer Resources
Browse multiple resources on documentation guides for MLA, APA, Chicago, CSE, ASA
and I-Search papers, as well as videos and grammar exercises.
E-mail / Virtual Consultation
Click the “Submit Your Work” box, complete the form, and attach your draft for feedback from a consultant. Only use the desktop version of Microsoft Word; do not use the app or online version of Word to submit your material. When using Google docs, be sure to convert your paper to a Word Doc before submission as PDF files cannot be reviewed. Consultants review papers Monday - Friday and reply within 24-48 hours. The Writing Center is closed on weekends. Contact write-in@nwacc.edu with questions or to request a virtual consultation.