The Writing Center
Tutoring
The Writing Center offers collaborative tutoring in reading and writing for any discipline. Contact us at 281.290.3279 or CFWC@lonestar.edu, or stop by LRNC 203 to make a 30-minute appointment.If you might be late, please contact us at 281-290-3279. If you are more than ten minutes late and have not called in, your appointment will be marked as "no-show" and given to another student.
Online Tutoring
This service is for Lone Star College System courses only. Please remember that the CyFair Writing Center is not a proofreading, editing, or grading service. We will not fix your paper for you, but we will help YOU improve your paper.Our online tutoring is now e-mail based. Please address an email to cfwc@lonestar.edu and include the following information. If you like, copy and paste this list into your e-mail.
- A Microsoft Word compatible copy of your paper
- Your professors instructions
- Your name
- Your student ID
- The course name and number
- Your professor’s name
- The due date
- Any specific concerns you have regarding your assignment.
Same day and due date appointments are not available. The turn-around period is at least 24-hours during the week, and at least 72-hours Friday - Sunday. This means that if you turn your paper in to us at 9:00 pm on Tuesday, the earliest you can expect a reply is Thursday morning.
Should you have any further questions, please feel free to contact us at cfwc@lonestar.edu or 281-290-3279.
Location
Located in room LRNC 203, our Writing Center can help you to develop your academic writing skills.Writing Center Policies
Students should bring any written assignment guidelines, notes and/or drafts to their sessions.Students should schedule their appointment at least one day before the assignment due date.
Students should arrive at least five minutes early for their session in order to sign in and fill out forms.
What Our Tutors WILL Do:
- Help you understand your assignment
- Help you set goals for your writing
- Help you brainstorm ideas for your essay
- Help you identify your audience
- Help you outline and draft your paper
- Help you identify areas for possible improvement
- Help you understand an instructor's comments on graded papers
- Help you learn proofreading techniques
- Help you improve your general writing or reading skills
- Write your paper
- Proofread or correct your paper
- Develop ideas for your paper
- Estimate the grade for your paper
- Do research for your paper
- Take the responsibility for finding all the mistakes in your paper
- Tell you what or how to write
External Resources
Prewriting
Outlining
Sentence Types
Guide to Grammar & Writing
The Thesis
Writing Effective Paragraphs
