Writing Sessions
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Important Information
To avoid Academic Integrity violations, questions about exams, including take-home exams, should be directed to your instructor or teaching assistant. If you are working on a group assignment, we encourage you to book individual appointments with Writing Services, as needed.
Writing Sessions
The Centre for Student Academic Support (CSAS) offers equitable access to writing support services for the Carleton community.
- Are you having trouble understanding what the assignment is asking you to do?
- Are you interested in learning skills and strategies to edit and proofread your writing assignment?
- Have you gotten feedback suggesting that your writing is unclear or wordy?
Join us for a one-on-one Writing Session to talk about a writing assignment you have for a Carleton course. We are here to help.
Be sure to look at the scope of services we offer in the drop boxes below.
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- Understanding the assignment and responding to it appropriately.
- Listening and helping organize thoughts and ideas.
- Developing strong thesis statements.
- Creating an outline.
- Turning an outline into a draft.
- Writing effective introductions and conclusions.
- Developing an argument.
- Structuring and organizing.
- Writing clearly and concisely.
- Learning skills and strategies for editing and proofreading your paper.
- Developing critical thinking skills.
- Understanding the difference between description and analysis.
- Identifying online writing resources that help guide the writing process.
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- Editing and Proofreading: We can help you learn how to do this for yourself, but we can’t do it for you because that would violate Carleton’s Academic Integrity Policy.
- Multiple Assignments on the same day: We welcome you to book an additional Writing Consultation Session on a different date.
- Exams: To avoid Academic Integrity violations, questions about exams, including take-home exams, should be directed to your instructor or teaching assistant.
- Citations: The library provides Citation Guides to help you. Carleton’s Academic Integrity Policy means that the Library cannot check or verify if your citations are correct. Librarians and Subject Specialists can answer general questions about citation practices. In all cases, students should consult the specific edition of the citation guide assigned for their class.
- Resumes, Cover Letters, and Statements of Interest: The team at Career Services is specially trained to help you with all of your professional writing needs.
- Grant Proposals and Graduate Funding Applications: Students are advised to seek help from Graduate Studies, or their supervisors.
- Scholarships: Students can reach out to the Awards and Financial Aid as they may be best suited to support them with their scholarship questions.
To book a Writing Session, please visit the One-on-One Appointments page of our website. If you have any additional questions, please send us an email: csas@carleton.ca.