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- English Writing Center-
Graduate Services
Tutoring is available to MSU graduate students during the summer sessions. For appointments, please send an email to Lauren at: msu.grad.tutor@gmail.com or call 994-5315 and leave a message.
A program funded by the Division of Graduate Education is designed to offer graduate students opportunities to work with a professional writing tutor and is available by appointment in the Writing Center. The primary purpose of this program is to provide graduate and doctoral students support for improving the overall quality of student writing at the graduate level. The Graduate Writing Tutor is available to work with graduate students through all stages of the writing process: generating ideas, locating effective supporting materials, improving logic and cogency, and overall organization. The tutor does not offer proofreading services.
The service is free to any graduate student enrolled at Montana State University. Services are available for any writing project the student must complete, including seminar papers, lab reports, professional papers, theses, and dissertations. While the tutor will be knowledgeable about specific requirements regarding format and style as established by the Division of Graduate Education for theses, dissertations, and professional papers, all formatting questions will be referred to the Division of Graduate Education’s Graudation Specialist.
Graduate student responsibilities for tutoring sessions will vary according to the particular writing process stage. However, students should bring all materials relevant to the assignment to the tutoring session, including the specific assignment, any stipulations from the professors, abstracts, proposals, and personal research notes.
If the student is in the final stages of the writing process, an advance copy of the draft may be required. For a lengthy seminar paper, thesis chapter, or proposal, the student should provide the tutor with a copy of the draft a few days before the scheduled appointment. This can be done via email or by delivering a hard copy to the Writing Center in Wilson Hall 1-108. Typically, the tutor and student will cover ten to twelve pages in a one-hour appointment.
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