Objectives

The Writing Assistance Center (WAC) is a supplemental tutoring program offered by the English Department and designed to assist students with ANY writing assignment. The WAC was established to help all the campus students strengthen their writing abilities and achieve a better standard of English by continuing to improve their English language skills even though they no longer have English classes.

How it works

At the Writing Center, we work one-on-one with students of all levels in a supportive setting. We provide students with feedback on their work and help them develop strategies for approaching future writing tasks. Our aim is to help students acquire the skills to develop and polish their writing themselves. Here’s some of what we offer:

• We are a FREE and confidential service for students, staff, and faculty at AUT.
• We’re open from Monday to Friday in the E-building (rooms E109, E110, E111). The schedules of the instructors are posted on the doors.
• We support students at any stage of the writing process and we offer guidance in:

- exploring ideas

- outlining

- drafting

- revising

- editing

- writing paragraphs and topic sentences

- writing thesis statements

- avoiding plagiarism

- using transitions

- citing sources

- using evidence

- writing essays, reports, book reviews and research papers

- preparing oral presentations

- conducting interviews

- improving grammatical and sentence structures

• We provide a positive learning experience facilitated by knowledgeable writing instructors.
• We work with students on writing from any class—not just English.
• We assist with academic writing assignments, as well as extra-curricular writing (resumes, application, recommendation, resignation, appreciation letters etc.). 
• We offer flexible hours.

For more information email us at one of the following:

carol.tayah@aut.edu

rawya.kairouz@aut.edu

june.antoun@aut.edu

joyce.aboujaoudeh@aut.edu.

Our policy on proofreading is that we will not, under any circumstances, be writing for the students, rather we will be assisting them by pointing out their mistakes, but the correcting will be done by the students.

We do not proofread students’ papers. That is, if the students want to work in their tutorial on correcting grammatical errors in their writing, an instructor will not find and correct those errors for them. Instead, the instructor will go through the regular process with them, first listening to their concerns, then reading their paper, and talking with them about the kinds of grammatical errors they’re committing. Then, with the instructor’s help, they can learn how to avoid or correct these mistakes on their own.

We have adopted this policy at the Writing Assistance Center at AUT because we see the writing support we provide as part of the University’s educational mission. We believe that we can best meet our goal of helping students to become better writers not by simply correcting grammatical errors for students, but instead by helping them strengthen their skills in all aspects of the writing process, including proofreading.  Furthermore, we can’t promise that a student who has had a tutorial at the center will hand in a paper completely free of grammatical errors even if the tutorial concentrated on grammatical problems, since the work of proofreading the paper is ultimately the student’s responsibility.

Instructors will not accept "drop off" papers/assignments.