Pensacola State College Writing Lab

Since many of you are writing your first paper of the summer right now, this guide might be helpful!

Remember to keep your professor's preferences and requirements in mind. Some don't like it when your thesis has a three-part list, while others encourage or require it.

Read the instructions carefully, and come to the Writing Lab to make sure you're on the right track before you turn it in. We're here for you! 🥰

No college essay can defeat you! Come see a Writing Lab tutor, and we'll help you develop a battle plan that will make getting started a lot easier. You've got this! 🙌

This is an exciting time for those who love Edith Wharton's work. 😊 Do you have any stories, poems, or essays that you started but never finished? Summer can be a good time to pull them out again to see if there is some buried treasure in them after all. Take another look. You might find something wonderful!

Unseen Edith Wharton short story is published more than a century later The Men Who Saved the World, the Pulitzer winner’s lost manuscript found in Yale archives, appears in Strand magazine

Happy weekend! Don't forget that although we are closed on Fridays during this part of the summer, the Writing Lab will be OPEN both in person (Building 4, Room 448, Pensacola campus) and online via Zoom on Saturday from 9 - 1 and Sunday from 12 - 5. Hope to see you soon! 🥰

Do you have an assignment deadline coming up? 😮 The Writing Lab tutors can help you—even at the last minute—so please don’t hesitate to come by! We’re here for you. 🥰

Author Emily Rapp wants you to go beyond outlines and allow your creative process to unfold in whatever form works best for you. The Writing Lab tutors wholeheartedly agree!

In fact, they've been known to paper our office walls in sticky notes or diagrams when they're working on a project for one of their classes. Need help cutting loose and finding the fun in writing once again? Come by to see the experts. We can help! 🥰



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Jump Into the Ball Pit: Emily Rapp Black on the Creative Power of Play This first appeared in Lit Hub’s Craft of Writing newsletter—sign up here. One summer in Brooklyn I made an outline for my first book. I was told I must do this, or my ideas would be unorganized, m…

Are you prone to this kind of thinking? Let your drafts be rough so that you can get your best ideas flowing! The Writing Lab tutors can help you polish them later on. For now, just write! 🥰

Looking for something short, but meaningful, to read this summer? This list from Literary Hub is a great place to start! 😊

50 Great Classic Novels Under 200 Pages We updated this list as part of the the Best of the Best Books Reading Challenge! Join the challenge now! Very short novels have a special magic—not least because, not to be morbid, you can simply …

"Hot Dogs, Hot Resources" has moved to the WARRINGTON campus today and is happening in the Student Center of Building 3600.

Go say hi to Matt Daniel, our Writing Specialist who visits the other campuses. He'll be there from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. today. Hope to see you there!

Come to the student center on the Pensacola campus today between 11 and 2 for the “Hot Dogs, Hot Resources” event! You’ll get to see Jessica Millis, our Writing Lab Supervisor, learn about Writing Lab services, and get a free pen! See you soon 🥰