The Writing Center, located in the Jen Library, assists students at any level and any stage of the writing process. Services include one-on-one tutoring sessions with writing consultants, writing workshops about a variety of topics and graduate thesis advisement. The Writing Center also provides informative materials about writing-related topics. Students may schedule one-on-one consultations to review papers, class projects, comic book scripts, artists’ statements, cover letters or any other written material. Writing Center staff members offer advice about how to improve language, structure and grammar. Writing Center workshop topics include MLA style documentation, Turabian/Chicago style documentation and thesis writing. A graduate thesis adviser is available to discuss departmental preferences with students. A thorough writing guide detailing the thesis process is available as well. Other materials cover mechanics, documentation, plagiarism, essay structure and forms of essay writing. Appointments for consultations may be made by calling the Writing Center at 912.525.4707 or by forwarding an e-mail request to write@scad.edu. You must use your SCAD Webmail address for replies. Location Jen Library, 2nd Floor (West), Rooms 219 and 220 Hours* Sunday noon-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday closed *Hours vary during the breaks. Phone 912.525.4707 Email write@scad.edu Staff Katherine Rapkin krapkin@scad.edu Kirsten Mullis kmullis@scad.edu Jennifer Peper jpeper@scad.edu Read more about the Writing Center in The Chronicle! • Writing Center assists students at all stages of writing process -- 09/24/04 WRITING AND CITATION GUIDES *Indicates a meta site. Guide Sheet for MLA Style (PDF -- 132K) A+ Research & Writing (University of Michigan) http://ipl.si.umich.edu/div/teen/aplus/toc.htm Online Writing Lab: Research and Documenting Sources (Purdue University) Includes guides to MLA and APA documentation styles. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/index.html Guide to Grammar & Writing (Capital Community College) Includes guides to MLA and APA documentation styles. http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing (Washington College) Includes guides to MLA, Chicago and APA documentation styles. http://www.nutsandboltsguide.com/nb-home.html Turabian Style: Sample Footnotes and Bibliographic Entries (Bridgewater State College) http://www.bridgew.edu/Library/turabian.htm Guide Sheet for Turabian Style (PDF -- 200K) Noodle Tools Includes guide to MLA documentation style. http://www.noodletools.com/index.html Writer's Handbook From the University of Wisconsin at Madison's Writing Center, guides to academic writing, grammar and style, letters and application essays. Includes guides to MLA, Turabian/Chicago and APA documentation styles. http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/handbook.html Columbia Guide to Online Style Excerpts from The Columbia Guide to Online Style, demonstrating how to cite such online sources as Web sites, e-mail lists, newsgroups, synchronous communication sites and video games. The complete book is available in the Jen Library reference collection. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/cgos/idx_basic.html Citing Electronic Resources Includes guides to citing online material in MLA, Chicago/Turabian and APA style. http://www.usg.edu/galileo/internet/netinfo/citing.html Citing Sources and Avoiding Plagiarism: Documentation Guidelines (Duke University) Includes guides to MLA, Chicago/Turabian and APA documentation styles. http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/citing.htm Paradigm Online Writing Assistant (Chuck Guilford) http://www.powa.org/ A comprehensive, interactive writers guide and handbook. EVALUATING WEB SITES Evaluating Web Pages: Techniques to Apply and Questions to Ask (UC Berkeley) http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools (Cornell University) http://www.library.cornell.edu/okuref/webeval.html Evaluating Web Resources (Widener University) http://www2.widener.edu/Wolfgram-Memorial-Library/webevaluation/webeval.htm Evaluation Criteria http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html Guidelines for deciding whether a Web site is a reliable source of information. From New Mexico State University. INFORMATION SOURCES FOR PAPER TOPICS *The Best Information on the Net http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/ Links to Web sites providing substantive information on numerous current events topics. In addition to informational Web sites, there are links to primary source documents, such as the full text of laws and court decisions. Chosen and organized by librarians at St. Ambrose University. Hot Topic Series http://www.csa.com/csa/hottopics/hottopics-main.shtml Hot Topics (University of Louisville) http://library.louisville.edu/government/news/otherlinks/otherlinks.html Argumentative Essay Topics (Glendale Community College) http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/english/topicarg.html Hot Topics (California State University, Fullerton) http://library.fullerton.edu/interws.htm back to top