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About the Writing Center

The Writing Center hours:
Monday - Wednesday, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. 
Thursday - Friday, 9 a.m to 3 p.m.
Randolph Hall, Room 6
541-888-7299

Online Tutoring Instructions

Grammar

• Prepositions
• Adverbs
• Adjectives
• Pronouns
• Possessives
• Verb tenses, Verbals, Infinitives, Participles, & Gerunds

Punctuation

• Using You Ears to Identify Fragments, Run Ons and Comma Splices (Noguchi)
• Sentence Punctuation Patterns: Compound & Complex
• Numbers
• Capitalization
• Semicolon, Colon, Parenthesis, Dash, Quotation Marks, and Italics
• Comma Use With Restrictive/Non-restrictive Words
• Comma Rules

Organization

• Thesis and Essay Map
• Thesis and Support
• MODES - possible topics for different modes
• Patterns of Organization (Modes)
• Prompts
• Structure for Essay Answer
• Outlines

Writing and Revising

• Questions for Prewriting
• Questions to Revise a Paper
• Transitional Devices
• Writing to Discover Topics
• A Writer's Checklist
• Writing Introductions
• Parallel Structure
• Writing an Abstract
• Style: Sentence Variety

Using Outside Sources

• Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing
• MLA Documentation Handout
• APA Documentation Handout