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Do you understand all your course reading
assignments? Can you keep up with your instructors'
lectures? Are you confident in your ability to write
clearly and effectively? The Writing & Learning Studio
staff can show you useful study strategies and work with
you on reading and writing assignments from any course.
Come in at any stage of writing--from planning your
paper to drafting, revising, and editing. Our learning
assistants won't correct your paper for you or tell you
what to write, but they will engage you in thinking
about your writing and expressing your thoughts clearly.
Even students who already write well can benefit!
Tutoring in the TWLS is free and provided on a
drop-in basis. Appointments are not available.
Our free Student Success Workshops, taught by SCC
faculty and staff, are great opportunities for you to
learn information and techniques that can help you study
more effectively, produce better quality writing, get
higher grades and succeed in school.
- No registration is required--just
show up on time!
- Workshops last 50-55 minutes.
- Contact Grace Rhodes, TWLS Director,
if you have questions:
- Phone: from on
campus call ext. 4308
--- from off campus call
206.546.4101 ext.4308
- e-mail:
grhodes@shoreline.edu
The Studio offers three credit-bearing courses:
- English 089 Reading Center (1-3
credits, continuous enrollment)
- English 099 Writing Center (1-3
credits, continuous enrollment)
- Education 199 Tutor Training
Experience (3 credits)
ENGL 089 and ENGL 099 are personalized lab courses
open to both native and non-native English speakers.
(Non-native speakers must be at ESL Level 5 or higher to
enroll for credit.)
- read and remember textbook material
- take good lecture notes
- potentially increase your scores on
tests
- manage your time
- identify main ideas, supporting
details and patterns of organization in
different kinds of writing
- read critically
- understand literature
- plan papers
- organize and revise your writing
- develop ideas
- analyze your sentence grammar
- cite outside sources correctly
- proofread your writing
- use punctuation correctly
- do many kinds of writing tasks
In Education 199 "Tutor Training Experience," you
learn how to work as a learning assistant in the TWLS.
Both classroom learning and practical experience
tutoring are part of the course. To register, you must
have passed ENGL 101 with a 3.5 GPA or higher, have your
ENGL 101 instructor's recommendation, and interview with
Grace Rhodes, professor of Education 199.
Students can discuss their concerns about their
reading, writing, and study skills with The Writing &
Learning Studio director who can suggest resources and
strategies for improvement in those areas. (Students who
have or suspect they have a learning disability should
first check with the special services office, Room 5229.
Their phone number is 206-546-4545.)
Faculty may invite the TWLS director, Grace Rhodes,
to speak briefly to their classes about TWLS services
and resources. This is an excellent way for students to
find out about the Center and for instructors to
encourage their using it. Instructors may call or email
Grace at
grhodes@shoreline.edu or #4308 from campus.
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