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Get Help With:
- English as a Second Language:
- Conversation skills
- Idioms
- Culture of the USA
- Brainstorming and content development
- Grammar and mechanics
- Using MLA, APA, and Turabian citation
- Writing personal statements for college admission, resumes, and cover letters
- All writing assignments across the curriculum
Writing FAQs and Resources
Instructions for Zoom Conferences
Students can use our physical location on TCC campus, or use Zoom for an online conference.
If you have never used Zoom before, please view the following links:
Will a writing specialist or tutor proofread my paper?
Our writing specialists and tutors will offer guidance, valuable feedback, and resources to you in a collaborative and non-judgmental way. We help you become editors of your own writing, but we cannot proofread or write your paper for you.
How can I get my paper reviewed when the Learning Commons is closed?
Use Brainfuse.
Citation Styles
Planning and Drafting
- Reorganizing Drafts
- Reverse Outlining
- Revising Drafts
- Writing An Effective Title
- Rogerian Argument Blank Organizer
- Five Ws and How Chart Blank Graphic Organizer
- Effects Chart Blank Graphic Organizer
- Summary-Response Essay Template
- 5 Paragraph Outline Structure
- Reading, Writing, and English Skills Conference
Writing Strategies
Types of Assignments
- Analyzing a Poem
- Analyzing Film & Television
- Descriptive Writing Using 5 Senses
- Textual Analysis
- Narration Essay Guidelines
- Process Analysis Guidelines
- Argumentative (Persuasive) Essay Guidelines
- Illustration (Exemplification) Essay Guidelines
- Descriptive Essay
- Cause and Effect Essay Guidelines
- Comparison and Contrast Essay Guidelines
- Division and Classification Essay Guidelines
- Analyzing an Essay
- Definition Essay
- E-15: Informative Essay Guidelines
Career Writing and College Admission
Grammar and Mechanics
External Resources
Learning Commons Communications Calendar