OUR PHILOSOPHY
The philosophy of the LSU Writing Center is that all writers can benefit from the feedback of trained readers. Our tutors can be the “other voice” experienced writers use when they have colleagues read and critique their ongoing work. We can suggest strategies to improve your writing.
Trained tutors can help during all stages of the writing process—planning, drafting, and revising—and may discuss options to improve various features of a written text—development, organization, audience adaptation, sentence structure, or usage, for example. Our tutors approach writing conferences with long-term goals in mind, teaching strategies and skills in different stages of the writing process that will transfer to future writing tasks.
Writing tutors are prepared to work with students on their writing assignments for LSU coursework (such as essays, research papers, documentation, reports, reviews, dissertations) and with documents related to career pursuits (for instance, personal statements for graduate school, resumes, application letters). Conferences are collaborative. Writers and tutors work together to analyze assignments, review drafts, and discuss ways to improve communication.
We welcome and encourage LSU students to try our services as they work to become better writers.
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