What Happens in an On-line Writing Consultation

Peer consultants will try to return comments on your essay to you within 48 hours of your request (Monday - Friday only). You can expect a peer consultant to devote 30 to 40 minutes to your essay. While the peer consultant may suggest a particular area of your writing on which to focus, we encourage you to establish the priorities for the conference. Consultants may use one or more of the following strategies during your conference to help you improve your writing:

• reviewing the assignment
• asking questions
• giving positive reinforcement
• providing feedback
• offering constructive criticism
• demonstrating editing and proofreading techniques
• brainstorming and freewriting
• outlining to check organization
• referring to handbooks
• making suggestions for further revisions

What Won't Happen in a Writing Conference

• we won't tell you what to write.
• we won't correct your writing for you.
• we won't criticize the assignment, faculty comments, or grades.
• we won't review your writing without input from you about the assignment and what you want us to focus on.