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The Writing Center will open for online tutoring on Tuesday, September 21.

Make appointments as usual in My LaGuardia, but be sure to check in by email at WCLab@lagcc.cuny.edu 15 minutes before your appointment so that we know that you are here.
How to make an online appointment

As usual, make your appointment by going into My LaGuardia, clicking on the red Make Appointment button and filling in your responses.

Before your actual appointment, register for Zoom at Zoom.us. It’s absolutely free and very quick.

15 minutes before your appointment, be sure to check in by sending an email to WCLab@lagcc.cuny.edu so that we know that you’re here. Minutes later a tutor will contact you for your session.

You can request a particular tutor in your check-in email. If you don’t get that tutor, either the tutor was not on duty or already had a student.

Be sure you know your teacher’s first and last name so that your tutor can send a session report to the right person.

You still have to be on time, and as always, after the first five minutes your appointment may be given to someone on the Wait List.

If you are on the Wait List, also as always, you still must check in on time. After the first five minutes of the period, you’ll get an email either inviting you to an appointment or telling you that all the appointments are full and that you should sign up for a later time.

Need a more detailed explanation? Watch our "How-to" video:
Welcome to the Writing Center!
The Writing Center offers free professional tutoring on any aspect of any phase of any kind of writing, including:

finding or narrowing a focus for your writing

working out an outline or writing plan

developing detailed, effective paragraphs

using quotes and citation appropriately

zeroing in on specific grammar issues

reviewing a finished piece before submission

revising graded work

For all this and more, for any academic course or other writing purpose, such as personal statements and essays for scholarships and transfer applications, the Writing Center offers friendly, skilled, trained professional tutors. The Writing Center is open to all LaGuardia students who have begun taking English courses, whether or not they are now taking an English course. Students taking content area courses such as social sciences, humanities, health services, and business administration make up almost half of the students who use the Writing Center each term!