This spring the CLC Writing Center once again held our Night Against Procrastination Write-In event online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The event spanned two nights, Wednesday, April 28, 2021 and Thursday, April 29, 2021 going from 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm each night.
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Getting writing done can be hard in the best of times. And these days, it’s even more challenging to sit down in front of the computer and focus. We know.
The CLC Writing Center team is here to help with a two-day Virtual Write-In.
Continue reading “Mark Your Calendars! Our Night Against Procrastination Virtual Write-In is coming!!!”
The CLC Writing Center opens for business at 8:00 am on Tuesday, January 19, 2021. We look forward to working with you!
Once again all tutoring in the college will be online, but the writing center offers support to writers both synchronously and asynchronously.
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This fall the CLC Writing Center once again held our Night Against Procrastination Write-In event online due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The event spanned two nights, Wednesday, December 2, 2020 and Thursday, December 3, 2020 going from 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm each night.
This time, we focused heavily on the “write-in” aspect, students committing to spend a certain amount of time writing, and referred writers who needed assistance directly to the writing center, which thanks to extended hours, was also open until 10:00 pm.
Continue reading “Night Against Procrastination Virtual Write-In Recap”
All writing support this semester will be offered virtually through our Online Writing Center.
You have two options when working with the Online Writing Center:
Continue reading “CLC Writing Center Online for Fall 2020”Got deadlines looming? Do you have essays needing revision? Are you trying to finish your final research project in English 122, Psychology 121, or any other CLC class?
Getting writing done can be hard in the best of times. The Covid-19 pandemic has made it even more challenging to sit down in front of the computer and focus. We know.
The CLC Writing Center team is here to help. We are taking our traditional Night(s) Against Procrastination event (usually three nights—one night at each campus) online this semester and making a few other changes. Here are the details:
Continue reading “Night(s) Against Procrastination – Spring 2020 – Virtual Edition”
The writing center is open for business for Spring 2020 and our tutors are ready to work with your students. Here is some helpful information, especially if you are new to College of Lake County or new to the CLC Writing Center.
Any Writing, Any Class: We work with writers at all levels and across the curriculum. Not matter what your discipline, if you assign written work, our tutors can help support your students in their writing process. We help at any stage—from students needing to brainstorm topics or figure out the specifics of an assignment to students wanting to polish near-final drafts and everywhere in-between. We will not edit a student’s paper FOR them, but we will help them work on issues of grammar, punctuation, and word choice as well as on strategies to help them become better editors of their own work. Since our focus is on the writer and their learning, a visit to the writing center will not result in a perfect error-free text. However, most writers will leave with a stronger draft than they came in with and with a better idea of what they need to do to keep improving.
Not Just Writing but Reading: In addition to helping students with written work, tutors can also help students improve their active and critical reading strategies to tackle college-level texts. Tutors have been trained to scaffold students’ learning by modeling different metacognitive reading strategies, practicing the strategies with the student, and then encouraging the student to try them out on their own while they coach from the sidelines. In addition, many students simply benefit from the opportunity to talk to someone about the text they’re reading.
Speaking Too: The CLC Writing Center offers support to students as they work on speeches for CMM121 – Fundamentals of Speech or on other types of oral presentations. Tutors can help students brainstorm and organize their ideas as well as practice presenting their speeches in one of our individual tutoring rooms.
Our Writing Center Staff: Our tutoring staff in the Writing Center is a mix of peer (student) tutors and professionals (tutors with a bachelor’s degree or higher) but all tutors undergo an extensive initial training. Most take English 260 (Intro to Writing Center Theory & Practice, a 3-credit course) unless they are a professional tutor with at least a year of prior writing center experience/training. In addition, the writing center provides monthly professional development opportunities for its staff on a wide range of topics.
If you have any questions about the writing center or its services on any of the three campuses, please contact Dr. Jenny Staben, Faculty Coordinator of the Writing Center at 847-543-2594 or jstaben@clcillinois.edu.
There will be coffee, snacks, and helpful resources like tutors and laptops! Also, there will be names drawn for door prizes on the hour (and you’ll get a ticket for each hour you stay and write). Come join us!!!
In the spring of 2015, the Writing Center collaborated with a few of our wonderful English faculty members to try something new for CLC: offering online writing support. With a growing selection of online course options and students enrolling from places near and far, it seemed we owed it to online students to make writing tutoring available to them, especially since coming in to one of the physical writing centers was simply not feasible for many of them. (Travel from Haiti to Grayslake for a one hour tutoring session? Not happening.)
We’ve come a long way since that first semester, expanding from offering online tutoring in just three course sections to welcoming students enrolled in any CLC online course to work with a writing tutor online. When people who are used to face-to-face tutoring in the physical writing center hear that I tutor online, they sometimes grimace a bit and ask, “How does that work?” The answer is it works pretty well, partly because the online environment offers a lot of flexibility, not only in terms of time and location, but also in mode of interaction. Continue reading “CLC Writing Center Supports Online Students”
Voices from the CLC Writing Center 