The Writing Center will be closed Thanksgiving weekend, 11/28 – 12/1, because there are no classes.
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!
Getting a tutoring session at the Writing Center is simple and easy.
Tutoring at the Writing Center, in sunny B200, is now by appointment. To get a tutoring appointment, all students need to do is log into My LaGuardia and scroll down; the red Writing Center appointment button is on the lower right side.
Several pointers to keep in mind:
- Answer the prompts in order
- If you don’t already know a tutor, you may click on any tutor; we’ll assign you appropriately when you get to the Writing Center
- Phone numbers should not include any spaces or dashes between the numbers
- You may skip the comments box
- As the appointment page states, you must be on time for your appointment, and after five minutes your appointment may be given to students on the wait-list.
Bring the assignment.
If the session involves a paper for a class, the actual written assignment from the professor is very important to the effectiveness of the session. If the teacher has already seen a draft of the paper, the teacher’s suggestions for revision are also very important.
We look forward to working with you, students and teachers alike!