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Writing Support Services

Writing Support Services offers free half-hour individualized writing tutorials for all students who want to improve their writing. In a tutorial, students can

  • Discuss their writing process and learn strategies to write more effectively
  • Review returned papers to understand how to improve their written assignment
  • Work with an instructor on an ongoing basis to improve essay structure, paragraph development, sentence structure and style, grammar, and punctuation
  • Receive information on writing papers, book reviews, or other assignments
  • Get advice on how to use and document sources
  • Get help with English as a Second Language
  • Writing Support Services instructors will give general advice on any written document; however, they will not proofread.

To book a half-hour appointment, please visit http://www.ucalgary.ca/ssc/writing-support.

For Writing Support help via email, write to wconline@ucalgary.ca, describing your writing assignment, questions, and concerns in detail.

Telephone: 403.220.5881
Email: wconline@ucalgary.ca
Tutoring Location: Student Success Centre, 3rd Floor TFDL
Website: http://www.ucalgary.ca/ssc/writing-support