The MAX Center is open for tutoring M-F, 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Sun-Th, 7 -10 p.m. Visit us at Kagin Commons 1st floor!

Resources page

Writing Handbook
How Not to Stress About Writing
What is My Professor Looking For?
Where Can I Go to Get Resources?
How to get a handle on the big picture
Proofreading for yourself
Documentation styles
How to Avoid Plagiarism
Twenty Questions for Research Writing

Writing Handbook

You can receive assistance with all stages of your writing from the MAX
Center:

• Getting started
• Research
• Early drafts
• Revising
• Editing

How to get the best help from MAX Center writing tutors:

• Go well before an assignment is due.
• Bring any handouts (including the course syllabus)
• Bring any writing you have already done (including notes,
  drafts, outlines)

The MAX Center:

• helps students get started on papers;
• provides reader commentary on drafts;
• assists students in learning, understanding, and using the
  writing process;
• answers questions about citation, format, and grammar;
• teaches students how to revise, proof-read, and edit their
  own work.

MAX Center staff do not provide a proof-reading service to students, nor do they “rewrite” student papers. They do provide writing instruction and guidance (including helping students learn how to proof-read their own work), helping students to do their own work better.

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