The Writing Center

The Writing Center

The Writing Center is one-on-one writing assistance with a writing tutor to help develop writing skills and is a free tutoring resource to all current Kirtland students, faculty, and staff.

The Writing Center helps at any stage of the writing process:

• Starting: Understanding assignments, brainstorming, discussing and developing ideas.
• Drafting: Finding a focus, choosing a purpose, targeting an audience and developing a thesis or an argument.
• Revising: Improving paper organization, expanding ideas, improving clarity and cohesion.
• Researching: Finding a topic and choosing search terms, conducting searches, evaluating sources, integrating material into papers, documentation styles and citations.
• Polishing: Learn how to polish papers by learning to find and correct errors in punctuation, usage and grammar.

Access our Writing & Citing Help guide 24/7 for help with formatting, how to make ethical writing choices, and links to other helpful writing sites.

The Writing Center

In-person and online options are available.

In-Person

Meet in-person with a Writing Center tutor for assistance. The Writing Center is located in room 1523 in the Library & Learning Commons on the Grayling Campus.

• Drop-in during scheduled Writing Center hours. Current semester hours are listed at the top of this page.

OR

• Contact [email protected] to schedule appointment to meet in-person with a Writing Center tutor. 

Online Appointments

Schedule an appointment to meet one-on-one via Zoom or Google Docs with a Writing Center tutor by emailing [email protected].

OWL (Online Writing Lab)

The OWL provides online writing assistance via email when it is not possible to meet in-person with a Writing Center tutor.

Submitting Your Writing

Contact [email protected] using your Kirtland email.

Be sure to include the following information in your email:

• Your name, the course name, and the name of your instructor.
• Specific details of how the tutor can help you (look at my thesis for evidence; help me with commas; make suggestions for organizing my paper; how to format using APA or MLA, etc.)
• Specifications or a rubric for your assignment.
• Submit your assignment as an attachment, making sure that it meets the following guidelines:
  • Up to five, double-spaced pages of written text.
  • Formatted as a Google Doc or Microsoft Word file

The tutor will not proofread or correct your writing, but will offer suggestions to improve your work and help you make ethical writing choices.

Allow up to 48 hours for a response. Plan ahead and keep in mind your specific due dates. Submissions received Friday-Sunday will receive a response within 48 hours of the college reopening the following week.