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About the Writing Center
Whether you are a veteran English major, a Philosophy graduate student, or a first year pre-med, the USF Writing Center offers assistance to any student who wants to improve his or her writing skills. Our services are free and available to enrolled students, faculty members, and active staff.
- Regular advance-scheduled, one-on-one consultations are 50 minutes long.
- Students are welcome to make two appointments per week (but never back to back).
- Writing Center Consultants are graduate students from the Departments of English, World Languages, and Communication, all of whom have been writing instructors in addition to working as center consultants.
Highlighting & Error Finding
Here is another great tip from Writing Center consultant Sandy Branham. A tool that has been helpful for students performing critical analysis is the highlighting method. This is particularly helpful in papers for composition classes. Highlighting can really be used for anything, but I use it in 3 different ways. 1. I ask students to highlight each quote or paraphrase in their paper. Then, I ask t ...more
Common Writing Errors
Welcome back everyone! To get the spring semester started off, let’s go over five common errors in writing. Keeping these straight will help you improve your writing at any level. Using e.g. instead of i.e. (and vice versa). “i.e.” roughly translates into “that is” or “in other words.” “e.g.” equates to “for example.” Mixing these up can completely alter the meaning of your sentence. Check out th ...more
Congratulations to USF’s Oustanding Writing Center Tutors!
Jared White and Trisina Dickerson, two writing consultants from the USF Tampa Writing Center, are the winners of this year’s distinguished Southeastern Writing Center Association’s Professional Tutor of Year Award and Graduate Tutor of the Year Award, respectively. This is an unprecedented accomplishment within the writing center community. The USF Writing Center staff traveled to the SWCA 2012 co ...more