1. CLUE WRITING CENTER BASICS
FREE TO YOU!
Open Sunday-Thursday (any school night), 7pm-11pm in Mary Gates Hall
Drop-in ,45 minute sessions, one-on-one with trained tutors
CLUE is multidisciplinary, our tutors are from all different academic backgrounds
We welcome sessions to discuss personal statements, applications, letters to your mother and resumes too! (AKA anything in English!)
We host a variety of workshops , most popular include:
Composition portfolios
Résumés/cover letters
Personal Statements
Conversation groups with English and Education department faculty on Thursday nights
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2. ODEGAARD WRITING AND RESEARCH CENTER BASICS
Reserve your appointment online!
Open Sunday 12:00pm-9:00pm, Monday through Thursday 9:00am-9:00pm, Friday 9:00am-3:00pm
Drop-in consultations are also available between 10:30am and 6:30pm
Two appointments per week per writer (except during Finals)
Multidisciplinary undergraduate and graduate peer tutors from many different fields trained to support you with all kinds of writing – academic to personal
Free one-to-one, group tutoring, and writing workshops to help you become more successful and confident as writers over time

3. MORE WRITING CENTERS ACROSS CAMPUS
How about visiting the Instructional Center? Must be OMAD student,
Departmental Writing Centers:
Anthropology, Condon 836
Education, Miller 407C
History, Smith 020
Philosophy, Savery 362
Political Science, Law, Societies and Justice, International Studies, Gowen 111
Psychology, Guthrie Annex 4, Room 109
Sociology, Savery 203
A successful student uses all of their resources at different times throughout the research and writing process. A departmental writing center could be the best place to develop genre or department-specific writing skills.

4. WHAT SHOULD I BRING? 1. Please always bring your prompt!
What is a prompt? The instructions given for the assignment or task at hand.
Examples of prompts include:
Hard-copy assignments, canvas assignments and rubrics, questions to respond to for a personal statement, job description for a resume or cover letter
2. Question: Do I have to have something written already to bring to a writing center?
Answer: Nope! We love brainstorming, planning and drafting sessions in the writing center and we hope you will too!
3. If you DO bring in your written work it can be hard-copy or electronic
4. Bring along your favorite way to jot down notes/thoughts
5. QUESTIONS ☺

5. I loved the writing center, but who can help with my chemistry (or physics, or math, or language, et cetera…?
Maybe show CLUE web-site and scroll through

6. Composition Class Portfolio Workshop I:
Selecting The Right Materials for your Portfolio

7. Reminder: What is the portfolio?
Pay attention to the requirements in your specific class!
The portfolio is an evidence-based argument regarding your fulfillment of the course outcomes
Every part of the portfolio sh0uld be designed to help you prove to your audience (your writing instructor) that you have done an outstanding job fulfilling the four outcomes

8. Reminder: What is in the portfolio?
Pay attention to the requirements in your specific class!
Portfolios (almost) always have the following parts:
A Critical Reflection (sometimes called the “Cover Letter”)
A “Compendium” of all short and major assignments done during the quarter
3-5 Revised Papers that serve as the “evidence” that you have fulfilled the outcomes

9. Reminder: What is in the portfolio?
The Critical Reflection (or “Cover Letter”) usually includes:
An Introduction
Several Critical Reflections (organized by paper or by outcome)
A Final Reflection
The introduction is sometimes assigned as your reflection on your writing before the class.
The Final Reflection is sometimes assigned as a forward looking—thoughts about how the skills from the class will transfer to future endeavors.
Some instructors give out other specific requirements for the portfolio!

10. Reminder: What is in the portfolio?
The Compendium includes:
All the sequence related work
(Short and Major Assignments)
All assignments must be completed and included to pass the portfolio!

11. Reminder: What is in the portfolio?
The Revised Papers include:
3-5 Revised assignments (including at least one major assignment)

12. Owning the language of the portfolio assignment and outcomes
Go over the language of the outcomes carefully and follow-up with your instructor about parts you don’t understand.
If your instructor has a rubric for grading the portfolio, spend time reviewing this rubric (See also the rubric on page 399 of Writer/Thinker/Maker if you have that textbook)

13. Collecting and Selecting
Take your time and think about which papers you will revise
Think about your papers “holistically”
(You are now working with your papers as body of work that demonstrates the outcomes, not just papers that satisfy an individual assignment)
You want to be able to show papers that demonstrate how your writing weaves different outcomes together to achieve different writing goals

14. Revising
Keep in mind that you can revise your papers in ways that better help you demonstrate the outcomes!
Keep the outcomes nearby as you revise, and make a note of places that you can use as evidence that you have fulfilled various parts of the outcomes.

15. Reflecting It is important to keep in mind the following:
Show not only WHAT writing strategies and choices you have used to fulfill the outcomes, but explain HOW your writing creates the effects that you say it does and WHY these effects are important and appropriate
Consider showing not just the breadth of your writing strategies, but go into detail to show your analytical depth as well. Give examples!
Be metacognitive (Show your awareness of your various writing choices in detail!)
Breadth is showing all the little (and big) places where you have achieved the outcomes.
Analytical depth means you can talk about your writing at-length, showing your metacognition!

16. Questions and Answers about the Outcomes

17. Suggestions of writing that would work to demonstrate fulfillment of different outcomes

18. Suggestions of writing that would work to demonstrate fulfillment of different outcomes

19. Suggestions of writing that would work to demonstrate fulfillment of different outcomes

20. Strengths of sample cover letter

21. Strengths of Sample Writing Regarding: Outcome 2

22. Weaknesses of Sample Writing Regarding: Outcome 2