In order to limit the exposure of COVID-19 and protect our students and consultants, the Writing Center will be working with students only through digital methods. For the summer session May 18–August 7, all Writing Center consultations will be through the online consultation service. You can also receive help through the chat feature found at the bottom of each page of our site. We are working on additional ways to assist our students through digital methods, and will update this site as they are available.
Improve Your Writing
You’ll find a variety of assistance through the Writing Center. Our experts can help you develop and support your thesis, understand a rhetorical situation, organize ideas, cite sources, improve clarity, revise, and incorporate peer and instructor comments. What else? Learn how to brainstorm and organize ideas, and how to create an outline for your draft. When you consult with the Writing Center, bring any information you have about your assignment: the assignment sheet, due dates, the course syllabus, your textbook, notes, research, and/or any drafts or outlines. A rough agenda of items to cover during your appointment and any questions you have can also help you get the most out of your writing consultation.
Scheduling Appointments
You can schedule a 45-minute appointment through TutorTrac, or ask the Writing Center consultant working at the first-floor library service desk if there are open same-day appointments. If you need to cancel an appointment, you may do so on TutorTrac up to 12 hours before the appointment. If it’s less than 12 hours until your appointment, please call us to cancel.
We welcome walk-ins during our unfilled appointment times, but recommend scheduling your appointment because we can’t guarantee that an appointment will go unfilled. Plus, you can always ask the consultant a quick question.
If you have a busy schedule, transportation issues, or would rather take care of business digitally, we have an online consultation service where you can submit email consultation requests 24/7. Please allow two to three days for your submission to be returned.
No matter which kind of consultation service you use, we’ll email a summary at the end of your appointment. You can also check your visit history on TutorTrac.
Summer Hours
In order to limit the spread of COVID-19 and protect our students and consultants, the Writing Center is offering online-only assistance for the Summer 2020 Session. Consultations are available through email and virtual consultations. Please see our Online Assistance page for more information. Our hours are as follows:
- May 18–August 7, Monday–Thursday, 10 a.m.–4 p.m.
Contact
Writing Center
Helmke Library First Floor
260-481-5740
writingcenter@pfw.edu
Kristine Frye
Director, Writing Center and Library Service Desk
Helmke Library 110H
260-481-0257
kristine.frye@pfw.edu
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Our Policies
Because we have a limited number of staff but serve all courses held at Purdue Fort Wayne, we must enforce several policies:
- You may schedule one appointment per day, per class. (If you schedule more than one appointment per day for the same class, the first appointment of the day will be kept and the following appointments will be canceled.)
- You may schedule up to three appointments per six-day period, per class.
- Please do not overlap submissions to the online consultation service and face-to-face appointments for the same assignment.
- Please plan to have no more than 10 pages of text consulted on in a single appointment. (If the paper is more than 10 pages long, please provide a 10-page range of text to focus on during the appointment.)
- Graduate students must meet with graduate student consultants or undergraduate student consultants that have been approved for graduate work.
- We do not provide transcription or dictation services.
- We do not provide proofreading or editing services.