Writing Help for All Subjects
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Summer Tutoring Hours:
Virtual (Zoom) |
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Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm |
Writing Help is Available Through Drop-in and by Appointment!
The Writing Center promotes students’ success and independence as writers and critical thinkers beyond college. We help writers make their own choices about a text rather than “fixing” papers for them through our peer-led environment. Therefore, we are not editors, we are guides for students to choose their own path as writers.
Writing Center tutors can help with:
- Development of ideas
- Organization and drafting
- MLA and APA Citations
- Grammar guidance
- Sentence phrasing and flow
VIRTUAL Drop-in
For drop-in writing help please refer to the Writing Schedule for availability. NO appointment needed.
VIRTUAL ONE-ON-ONE APPOINTMENTS
30 MINUTE APPOINTMENTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE to help with your writing assignments. Please have questions ready for discussion.
Once an appointment is made, an email will be sent to your MyCuesta email with a confirmation of the appointment, details, and a personal link for your Zoom session. Within this email you will have the ability to cancel if need be.
Online Resources
- Library Research Page: How to videos and A-Z lists of Special Databases,
- Library Services Page: Get access to the Cal Poly Library and others
- Ask A Librarian live chat (available during posted Library hours)
- Web Resources by Subject
- WolframAlpha: Not just for Math and Science - a powerful search engine that pulls answers to simple questions from multiple sources! Check out a the demo.
Study Skills
- Motivation and Goal Setting
- Effective Studying
- Time Management
- Listening and Note-Taking
- Memory and Learning Styles
- Textbook Reading Strategies
- Memory Tips
- Test-Taking Strategies
- The First Step
- Study System
- SQ4R
- Maximize Comprehension
- Different Reading Modes
- Paragraph Patterns
- An Effective Strategy
- Finding the Main Idea
- Read a Medical Text
- Read in the Sciences
- Read University Level