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The Student Writing & Language Center (SWLC), located in the Peer Learning Commons on the ground floor of Ladd Library, empowers ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students in becoming more effective writers, language-users, communicators, thinkers, and learners by providing a supportive environment for idea generation, collaboration, drafting, writing, reading, revising, editing, studying, speaking, and presenting. SWLC tutors are ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ students trained to listen to and guide their peers in using writing and language to achieve students’ personal and academic goals.

Need support now? View our writing and language support drop-in hours and/or book appointments with a writing or language tutor using the app.

Interested in working as a SWLC tutor? More information here.

Writing Support

SWLC serves all writers at any stage of the writing process. Our peer writing tutors can help students develop strategies for:

• Understanding a writing assignment.
• Coming up with ideas to write about.
• Decoding feedback from professors.
• Outlining and drafting.
• Using your voice.
• Integrating and citing sources.
• Revising your drafts.
• Editing and proofreading final drafts.

Language Learning Support

Our language tutors are available to work with students wishing to practice and improve their speaking, reading, studying, or writing skills in the following languages taught at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College:

• English
• Spanish
• French
• Japanese
• Chinese
• Russian
• German
• Latin
• Greek

Other Types of Support

We also provide support for speaking assignments and oral presentations, graduate school and grant applications, and thesis and capstone projects. Once you’ve written or composed a draft of your speech or presentation with the help of a SWLC Writing Tutor and are ready to practice it, head on over to the PLC’s Speaking & Presentation Studios where there are trained tutors to give you feedback on–and even a recording of–your presentation, if you’d like.

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