Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 09:48:12 -0700
From: Carolyn Plumb <plumb@u.washington.edu>
To: faculty@engr.washington.edu
Subject: Engineering Writing Center
I am writing to remind you about the services offered by the Engineering
Writing Center (EWC). For several years, the Educational Policy Committee
has recommended that we establish a Writing Center; thanks to the support
of Deans Denton and Reed, we have funding for the EWC for a one-year trial
period. The EWC is located in Rooms 302 and 304 of the Engineering Annex
(ewc@engr.washington.edu).
**If you have writing assignments in your autumn-quarter course and would
like for us to do a brief presentation about the EWC for your students,
please respond to this e-mail with information about your course meeting
time(s) and place.**
Below is a description of the services provided by the EWC:
* Tutors to work with students on specific writing assignments from
departmental classes. The overall goal will be to improve student writing,
but to improve it through teaching students how to identify and fix their
own writing problems (the tutors are not editors).
* General consulting for students who want to develop skills and
strategies for all phases of the writing process (planning, drafting, and
revising).
* Online information about writing (e.g., specific grammar problems,
ESL problems, models of different types of documents, examples of good
writing).
* Help for faculty (e.g., designing writing assignments and
developing criteria for evaluating writing).
* Workshops for students, faculty, and writing center staff.
The EWC will not offer the following services:
* Copyediting or proofreading (for undergraduates, graduates, or faculty).
* Estimating the grade a paper will receive.
* Grading papers.
If you have any questions about the EWC, let me know.
Carolyn Plumb, Lecturer
College of Engineering Communication Course Coordinator
Department of Technical Communication
Box 352195, University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
plumb@u.washington.edu