Writing Help for All Subjects
Operating Hours
Monday - Thursday (9:00 am - 6:00 pm)
Friday (9:00 am - 5:00 pm)
Monday - Thursday (9:00 am - 6:00 pm)
Friday (9:00 am - 5:00 pm)
Writing Help is Available Through Drop-in!
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
WRITING TUTOR SCHEDULES
NO appointment needed. Click on the links below to open the calendar for your desired platform (in-person by campus or virtual). Calendars open in "month view" by default for screen reader accessibility. Click on "week view" for a quick visual overview of individual tutor availability.
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