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Locations
The Writing Centers are located in the Technical Education Building Room 101 on the Fulton Campus, the Purvis Center (Room 117) on the Tupelo Campus, and online.
Services
The Writing Centers assist students by providing the following services:
- Evaluations of drafts and feed back about choices made in writing
- Identification of global and sentence level errors to help students make corrections on their own
- Support in implementing phases of the writing process—planning, drafting, and revising
- Help in writing letters of application and other documents related to employment
- Referrals to grammar and reference resources (in-house and online)
Hours of Operation
Fulton campus from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on Friday in the Technical Education Building 101.
Tupelo campus from 8 a.m. until 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. on Friday in the Purvis Center.
Appointments
Help for walk-in tutoring sessions is available but not guaranteed. To be sure tutoring is available call 662-862-8292 or sign up at a Writing Center at least twenty-four hours in advance. Each session will last about thirty minutes.
What to Bring/Submit
Bring your assignment sheet so that the tutor can determine the expectations for the writing task. Before the session, read the assignment carefully and make notes. Bring two copies of any drafts you may have written in advance, and bring your sources. If an instructor has referred you to an on-campus Writing Center, bring the referral sheet, or submit it by email along with your draft to be evaluated if you have been referred to the Online Center. (Use Microsoft Word for all online submissions.) Address for the Online Center submissions are Ms. Anna L. Begnaud (albegnaud@iccms.edu).
What Tutors Do
- Review the assignment with the student
- Read any work the student has prepared in advance
- Ask and answer questions
- Work with the student to improve writing skills (The object is help the student become a better writer rather than simply "fixing" the current assignment.)
- Respond to work submitted through the Online Writing Center
What Tutors Do Not Do
- Grade student papers
- Correct or proofread for sentence-level errors
- Re-write passages
- Guarantee that online submissions will be returned in fewer than twenty-four hours
