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