WELCOME TO THE CALDWELL COLLEGE ONLINE WRITING LAB
Writing
can be frustrating at times. At any point in the writing process you may
encounter a shortage of ideas, have difficulty pulling your ideas together,
or you might just be unsure of whether you’ve expressed yourself clearly.
Although the most effective writing assistance takes place face-to-face
in the Academic Support Center (so if you can come in person, please do),
an alternative is Caldwell College’s Online Writing Lab.
SERVICE AVAILABLE: Spring and Fall semesters to only Continuing Education/External Degree students. These students may call 973-618-3643 for availability during Summer Sessions I and II
RESPONSE TIME: Papers sent on-line will be read M-F 2:30 – 4:30. Therefore, you should expect to receive a response within 72 hours of the time you send your paper, not including Sat/Sun. Responses will be sent to the e-mail address provided at the time of your submission.
LENGTH OF PAPERS: Adequate response to a paper that exceeds 5 pages is impractical to expect from on-line tutoring. Please visit the on-campus lab with longer research papers.
GOAL OF TUTORING: Please note that the goal of tutoring writing is to help writers develop skills, not to write for them. Therefore,
YOU MAY RECEIVE HELP WITH:
- pre-writing to generate ideas
- determining a focus
- improving organization
- developing supporting points
- finding links to sites at the Purdue University On-Line Writing Lab
- learning rules of grammar, punctuation, and documentation
YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE HELP IN THE FORM OF:
- re-writing your ideas
- “proofreading”: inserting corrections for errors in punctuation and grammar
CONTENT VS. MECHANICS
Please be aware that revising both content and mechanics usually requires separate attention. Most papers will benefit from a second submission to focus on mechanics, after content and organization have improved.
ONLINE WRITING LAB SUBMISSION FORM
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