Writing Center InformationSupport ServicesAttendance PolicyPlagiarism PolicyWriting Center InformationThe Writing Center consults with students one-on-one about any kind of writing, at any stage. All sessions are 45 minutes. Some consultants also offer "etutoring" sessions where students can drop off their assignment and current draft; comments are sent back within one day. The Writing Center can help with reviewing assignments, brainstorming, getting started, expanding ideas, revising early drafts, crafting your thesis, organizing and outlining, adding power and style, using/citing sources, and reviewing strategies for editing and proofreading. Their main goal is to help students to become stronger and more confident writers. Please note that all ENG 1100 and ENG 1500 students are required to attend one Writing Center session by the end of week 8 of the semester. Reading and Assignment to Pair with Writing Center VisitAssignment authored by: Sean Molloy, Tracey Pletz, and Eric ScholzThis assignment requires students to attend a session at the Writing Center and reflect on the experience. All 1000-level students are required to attend one session at an appropriate academic support center like the Writing Center, and this is one way of building that requirement into your course. Murray explains that writing and revising are tools writers use to think and make meaning clear. He provides his revision checklist along with a description of each step, which can serve as a how-to guide to show students what substantial revision is and how it differs from proofreading. Click here for the reading. Click here for the assignment. Support Services for Teachers and Students Please see the attached list of on-campus support services available to help our students. Attendance PolicySpecific attendance policies are determined by individual instructors. William Paterson University requires attendance to be recorded regularly and count toward the final grade for all 1000-level courses. Plagiarism PolicyPlagiarism is the copying from a book, article, notebook, video, or other source material, whether published or unpublished, without proper credit through the use of quotation marks, footnotes, and other customary means of identifying sources, or passing off as one’s own the ideas, words, writings, programs, and experiments of another, whether such actions are intentional or unintentional. Plagiarism also includes submitting, without the consent of the professor, an assignment already tendered for academic credit in another course. Plagiarism is a serious offense with serious consequences, which may include failing the assignment, failing the course, disciplinary action, or even expulsion from the University.
