Your professor gives you a detailed rubric to your first five-page paper, wishes you the best of luck, and sends you on your way. Passive voice, parenthetical citations, slippery slope, but what does it all mean? Some students are fully capable of sitting down and transferring their thoughts down on paper; for those who need some help along the way, there’s Plymouth State University’s Writing Center.
The Writing Center is located on the lower level of the Lamson Library and is there to provide students with a quiet and relaxing environment. Within this environment, students can set up weekly appointments to meet with peers and professionals about a wide range of assignments. Person- ally, it’s my savior! Questions about work cited pages, quotations, any style of writing are all available in the writing handbooks provided by the center. After all, it is located in the library.
We are all striving for A’s aren’t we? Out- lines and sloppy copies can only work for so many papers. Everyone has hit that point when they slam their head against their desk in hopes of magically stirring up some ideas. Well, here’s a better idea. Set up an appointment to check out a sample “A” paper. This guide was submitted by professors from students to provide an accurate example of an extraordinary composition.
However, don’t feel limited to composi– tion, the staff at the Writing Center will also assist students with speech writing and development in becoming a skillful reader