The Writing Lab will open for the Spring 2023 Term on Sunday, February 12.
The appointments calendar is available now for students to request appointments.
***NOTE: YOU MAY ONLY SIGN UP FOR ONE SLOT PER PAPER PER DAY***
The Writing Lab continues to offer both in-person and online sessions! All sign-ups are online. When signing up, please make sure that you are logged in to your University of Dallas account such that your UD email address is displayed in the upper-right-hand corner of the appointments calendar. This will ensure that the time zones of your calendar and ours are synchronized.
Sign up for an in-person session
Note that though you are signing up online, you must meet a tutor in Braniff 304 or possibly in Braniff 332 when two tutors are offering evening hours.
Meet your tutor in the Zoom meeting 1-2 minutes before the designated time.
For further instructions regarding both on-campus and online sessions, see below.
Sunday: 6:00-10:00pm
Monday: 10:00am-10:00pm
Tuesday: 10:00am-10:00pm
Wednesday: 10:00am-10:00pm
Thursday: 10:00am-10:00pm
Friday: 10am-2:00pm
Saturday: Closed
Online sessions will be held via Zoom, and the link to the meeting will be in the Google calendar event description. In-person sessions will be held in Braniff 304, the room next to the English Department office and, after 6pm, in Braniff 332, next to the Philosophy Department office.
If you are having trouble signing up for a Writing Lab session, please email the Writing Lab at writinglab@udallas.edu or the Writing Lab Director, James C. Zeller at jczeller@udallas.edu.
The Writing Lab exists to help students improve their mastery of the skills of composition — invention, organization, and style. At the Lab, we want to help students become better writers by attending, together, to the crafting of specific papers. Focusing primarily on the student’s development, we neither edit nor proof-read papers; instead, we aim to help the students discern areas for improvement, and to guide them into the next stage of that growth. All the tutors in the lab are graduate students here at UD. We welcome papers of all kinds, not just Lit Trad papers; we work with students on papers from across the Core, including scientific writing, as well as on applications to various scholarships and programs.
Please share a copy of your paper via Google Docs with writinglab@udallas.edu, no less than 10 minutes before your session is due to start.
When sharing your document, please give your file a title that will make it easy to recognize. An example of such a format would be your surname and the date of your session: "Smith Oct. 7"
Please note that your session's fruitfulness will correspond to your own preparedness. So please come with specific questions about your draft or outline, and prepare yourself to think and learn about the arts of grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Your tutor will not create a thesis for you (that would constitute plagiarism!) or provide your provisional thesis with textual argumentation. Instead, he or she will help you to develop your thoughts about the subject as you present it in your paper.
Note, too, that your session is only 25 minutes long. Due to the conversational nature of this kind of learning, you should NOT expect to work through an entire paper in one session. Instead, you are more likely to focus intently upon a few areas of improvement.
Important Note: In order to maximize this time, please handle the logistical operations listed below BEFORE your session is to begin.
General Writing Lab Rules:
1. Undergraduates are limited to one 30 minute slot per day per assignment.
2. Tutors are not allowed to edit, review, or critique take-home, out-of-class exams without the written consent of the exam-giving instructor.
3. Tutors will comment on grammar, syntax, organization, and/or argumentation of the draft presented. Their task is to show where the paper needs to improve, not to re-write the paper. For that reason, tutors will point out consistent errors in grammar and syntax, but not correct them all. Similarly, tutors will point out problems with evidence use or information flow, but they will not generate the paper's argument, evidence, or information.
Should you have any questions regarding the Lab, please do not hesitate to reach out to the Director:
Mr. James C. Zeller
Adjunct Instructor of English and Writing Lab Director
Writing Lab: Braniff 304
Email: jczeller@udallas.edu
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