Saturday, October 31, 2015

The Writing Center

Mission Statement

In keeping with the Skutt Catholic mission to educate young men and women, the writing center provides support to students for the purpose of remediating, reinforcing and enriching their writing.

What We Offer

·    encouraging students' writing, thinking, reasoning, learning and inquiry
·    fostering a positive attitude toward writing across the curriculum and at all levels of proficiency
·    reinforcing writing as a process as taught in the classroom
·    putting the control of and the responsibility for writing into the hands of students
·    providing a place to talk about ideas and engaging in experimentation and practice
·    giving students an audience for their work before it's graded
·    minimizing students' defensiveness about criticism by offering a low-risk setting
·    helping students understand that problems with writing are both normal and predictable