Augsburg Writing Center

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The Augsburg Writing Center offers both online and in-person tutoring. Skilled students will work one-on-one with students seeking help at whatever stage of writing they are in – the idea-development stage, the drafting stage, and/or the revision stage. Tutors can show students how to choose an appropriate essay topic, how to do research, how to develop a thesis statement and paragraphs, how to revise an essay, or assist with any other writing needs they may have. Tutors will be alert listeners and ask questions, and will not judge or evaluate the work in progress. The Writing Center also offers classroom workshops and writing support for faculty.

We hope to raise funds to be able to offer more time and resources to our Augsburg community. Augsburg University

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The writing center opens on Monday, September 20th for online tutoring appointments. Please check our website for more details. We look forward to seeing you!

The Writing Center will open for the Spring semester on January 25th! Check out our website to make an appointment. We can’t wait to see you!

The writing center will be closed on November 3rd. Everyone go vote!

The Online Writing Center will open on Monday March 30th.

Our hours will be:
Monday: 1-9pm
Tuesday: 2-9pm
Wednesday: 1-9pm
Thursday: 2-9pm
Sunday: 2-9pm

Please visit our website for details and directions for how to schedule an appointment. https://inside.augsburg.edu/writingcenter/

We look forward to seeing you!

Writing Center – Augsburg University Get help with your writing assignments The Writing Center is Closed for Spring Break March 14th-22nd. We will reopen on March 23rd. Come to the Library for face-to-face sessions or click below to sign-up for an online session. The Writing Center at Augsburg University is a place where students can w...

The Writing Center will continue to be closed through March 29th. We are working on expanding our online options and hope to make those available starting March 30th. Stay safe and healthy!

The Writing Center will be closed for Spring Break March 14th-22nd. We will reopen (we hope!) on March 23rd. Please stay safe and healthy!

Todays Weekly Writing Tip from the Augsburg University Writing Center:

Before writing a paper (academic or creative), take some notes of what you want to write in your paper. Like an outline, but just jotting some minor notes on a sheet of paper of main ideas you want to address, quotes you found in a source, ideas from peers, etc. This can help start a paper and finish it quickly. There may be less writing block if you know some of the things you are writing about before you start writing.

Read your paper over by yourself, out loud, before submitting it or completing it. You may hear some mistakes you wrote and it is better to catch it on your own that to give it to someone and have them see it.

Happy Wednesday Everyone!!!

Weekly writing tips from the Augsburg University Writing Center tutors!

1) Before a student starts writing their paper/essay, write an outline for that paper/outline. It is always better to have an idea about what to write and change it than go into any paper without an idea. This will help eliminate writer's block as well and being able to finish the entire paper faster as well.

2) Before submitting the final draft of the paper, take five minutes and read over the paper one more time. So many students finish their papers and want to turn it in just to get that assignment over with, however, if they read it over one more time, they will notice minor mistakes that they can fix and help the paper.

Weekly writing tip(s) from the Augsburg University Writing Center Tutors!

1) Don't be afraid of cut and paste! Sometimes a really good sentence or idea shows up in a paragraph that you don't eventually need. Salvage the best ideas from your first draft and build your paper around those.
2) Write your outline with topic sentences. The first sentence of each paragraph shouldn't just introduce the "topic" of what you're talking about, it should also make a point or argument about each topic (in this way, think of the topic sentences as baby thesis statements for each paragraph). Good academic writing is argumentative, not just informative, and it's helpful to organize your ideas around arguments, not just topics.
3) If you're unsure about your thesis statement, that's the best time to come to the writing center. The rest of your paper will be a million times easier to write if you can center it around an effective thesis statement.
4) Don't try to "sound smart" in your writing - it's always better to make sense than to use big words. Professors can tell when you're trying to write in a way you usually wouldn't. Just write in your own voice (guaranteed you're smart enough already)
5) Talk to other people in your class about their papers: their thesis statements, the evidence they're using, even the important feedback they've gotten from this professor before. Hearing other ideas will make you more creative.
6) The best way to become a better writer is to read more. This is true of your field - the best way to become a better poet is to read more poetry, the best way to become a better writer about sociology is to read more sociology articles.