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Writing Center

workshopThe English Department offers both a Writing Center and an Online Writing Center.

 




Writing Center
writingcenter@cscc.edu
614-287-5717

The Columbus State Community College Writing Center is a free one-on-one tutorial service for students, faculty, and staff.

Tutors work with writers on a variety of projects such as essay assignments, research papers, résumés, business letters, lab reports, and scholarship applications. Tutors can help with any stage of the writing process, from generating ideas to revising and polishing.

Columbus Campus Writing Center

Library (102 Columbus Hall)
Hours:

The Columbus Writing Center is open weeks two through ten of each quarter at the following times:
Monday – Thursday   9:00 a.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Friday    9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Saturday    9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

To schedule an appointment: Visit tutoring.cscc.edu.  Under "Center,"  choose "Writing Center - In Person," and then follow the prompts to make your appointment.  You'll receive an email confirming your scheduled time.

Delaware, Dublin, and Westerville Writing Centers

Please call or email for hours and room locations.

Writing Center brochure

Getting Started with Word Processing (.doc)
Formatting Documents in Word 2007 

For further information about the writing center, contact Deborah Bertsch, Writing Center Coordinator, at writingcenter@cscc.edu.

 

The Online Writing Center

The Online Writing Center at Columbus State Community College is a free service to all students who need help at any stage of the writing process. We offer writing tutoring in two ways. One way is asynchronous tutoring where students can submit essays to the OWC at any time via the Blackboard Assignment Feature, and these essays will be read by a writing consultant who is also a faculty member here at Columbus State.

Based on needs outlined on the submission form, our consultants provide feedback about the essays within 48 hours of the submission. We use a variety of methods to provide feedback, including using the Track Changes and Insert Comments tools in Microsoft Word. We also provide summary comments to the student and session comments to the student's instructor. To use this type of tutoring, you can click on "Submit Writing" on our Blackboard site.

Another way we provide tutoring is through synchronous tutoring, or an online, real-time web conference, where student and tutor are both at different computers but can talk to each other over the phone or over an internet connection and they can both be looking at the paper together at the same time. This requires a set appointment and internet access, and is enhanced if you have a web cam or at least a microphone and speakers to use. You can make an appointment on our Blackboard site under the button "Web Conference."

We also offer great links to writing resources such as the Purdue OWL, and we have a 'Writing Tips' section as well as a discussion board where a student can post a question if they do not want to submit an entire paper. Our Quick Questions are answered within twelve hours.

For access to the OWC, students should log into Blackboard and check under "My Organizations" and click on the appropriate OWC link listed there.

Online tutorials

Please use the following links to view online tutorials on these topics. (Courtesy Purdue OWL)

Active and Passive Verbs
APA Powerpoint Presentation
(APA) Style FAQ
(APA) Style Workshop Citing Sources in Your Text
(APA) Style Workshop Reference List Examples
Conciseness Exercise #1
Dangling Modifiers
Irregular Verbs
(MLA) Format
Making Subjects and Verbs Agree
Making Subjects and Verbs Agree Exercises
Methods of Eliminating Wordiness
Overview of Punctuation
Overview of Punctuation Exercise #1
Parallel Structures
Paraphrasing
Paraphrasing Exercise
Quotation Marks Exercise #1
Sentence Fragments
Sentence Fragments Exercise #1
Use and Non_Use of Articles
Using Commas
Using Commas Exercise #1
Using Modern Language Association (MLA) Format