The University Writing Center offers two writing seminars to help you navigate through writing assignments in your classes. You can register for either of them through Genisys or through your advisor. Each one is a semester long, is Pass/Fail, and costs $350. These programs include assignments that are due every week, and individualized writing support is available throughout the semester.

The Academic Writing Seminar for entering graduate and undergraduate students

This seminar focuses on the most important aspects of academic writing for graduate level students: thesis and topic sentences, paragraph development, style manuals, avoiding plagiarism, and grammar and punctuation.

On-Campus Section  CRN 10906

DATE: August 24 to December 20

TIME: Wednesday, 6-8 p.m.

PLACE: COM 146

Online Distance Section   CRN 10907

DATE: August 24 to December 20

Texts:

• The Academic Writing Seminar: A Basic Text by Martin Dignard & The University Writing Center
• Style: Basics in Clarity and Grace 3rd ed. by Joseph M. Williams ISBN: 978-0-205-60535-4 or 0-205-60535-4
• The style manual for your school--Turabian, MLA, or APA

The Advanced Academic Writing Seminar

This program builds upon the Academic Writing Seminar and offers increased skills in building a strong argument, choosing sources, writing more effectively, and using advanced sentence structure.

Tutorial CRN TBA

Spring Semester 2010

Texts:

• TBA
• The style manual for your school--Turabian, MLA, or APA

For more information on these seminars, please contact the Academic Writing Center by phone at (757) 352-4711 or by email at acadwrit@regent.edu.