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Writing
Consultation |
| One of the most popular services the Center
provides to the Lehigh community is its free, one-on-one conferences
with trained writing consultants. Students, faculty, staff members, and
dependents can schedule an appointment and come in at any point in the
writing process to brainstorm ideas, review a working draft for content
and organizational issues, or look over a polished draft one last time.
We will look at any type of writing, including: |
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First-year English papers |
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Lab reports |
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Research papers |
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Cover letters |
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Application essays |
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Academic articles |
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| One important fact to remember is that we work
with writers of all skill levels and special needs, including
self-described "struggling" writers, professional academics, successful
undergraduate and graduate writers, writers with learning disabilities,
and English as a Second Language writers. We work with this broad range
of writers because no matter how successful a writer is, all writers
have blind spots about their own texts. Successful writers know enough
to get someone else to look over their writings to find out where the
trouble spots are. That's what we do here at the Center. |
| While it is possible to get a walk-in
appointment from time to time, we strongly encourage individuals to
call us at (610) 758-3098 and make an appointment to guarantee
yourself a spot. |
What to Bring |
| When you come in for an appointment, we ask that
you bring the most recent draft of your work in progress, any
guidelines you may have been given by a professor or an editor about
the project, and any prewriting you may have done to organize your
text. By bringing these materials, we can see what expectations your
readers have for you, what ideas you are working with to shape your
paper, and where you are right now in the writing process. |
What to Expect |
When people first come to us, they often have
the mistaken impression that they will simply hand us their current
draft for us to "fix" while they read a newspaper or a magazine. We do
not operate that way. We expect you to be fully involved in the
consultation by telling us your goals and the problems you are having,
by reading the paper with us during the consultation so you can spot
some of your own errors, and by reworking sections of the text in front
of us so that you can find your own solutions to writing difficulties
with only a nudge here and there from us. Our primary goal is to help
writers develop their own strategies for working on a text
independently, and to do that, we ask every person we work with to take
an active role in the consultation.
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