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Location: L-125
Phone: (201) 447-7489
Dr. John Findura, Writing Center Supervisor
About the Writing Center at Bergen
Visit the Writing Center early for help with essays, research papers, and even creative writing assignments! The Writing Center tutors can help you get started as well as help you revise. Writing Center tutors can:
- Identify writing skills you’ve mastered and those you still need to learn.
- Find patterns of error and offer techniques to encourage independent self-correction.
- Ask clarifying questions.
- Help you own your work, locate your audience, and refine your voice.
- Give you an opportunity to write and receive immediate feedback.
- Assist with pre-writing strategies such as outlining, brainstorming, and clustering.
- Help with reading comprehension of textbooks, essays, and assignments.
- Offer research strategies, including how to narrow/broaden/complicate the scope of your thesis/question to meet page requirements.
- help you quote, paraphrase, and properly cite sources, both in-text and in a Works Cited, so as to avoid plagiarism.
- Listen and act as a sounding board to help you hear yourself.
Interested in working as a writing tutor? Apply here!
View the tutor job description and hiring guidelines here.
Quick Links
Reference Materials:
- Using MLA Format (OWL at Purdue University)
- Plagiarism (Indiana University)
- Merriam Webster On-Line Dictionary + Link to Encyclopedia Britannica site
- A Glossary of Rhetorical Terms
- Paradigm Online Writing Assistant
Research:
Writing Center Theory and Practice
- Writing Center Pedagogy (Highline College)
- The Barker Underground (Harvard University writing tutor blog).
Please Note: The Writing Center cannot offer feedback on writing assignments primarily created using AI text generating software (ChatGPT, etc.). While we understand such software can be useful in some instances, the Writing Center’s primary mission is to assist students better their own writing skills. If you have questions or concerns, please contact Writing Center Supervisor Dr. John Findura ([email protected]).