How To Start a Drop-in Conference
The Writing Center offers drop-in conferencing with in-person and online options. For in-person conferencing, visit us in Brandel Library, room 123. For online conferencing, follow the steps below:
- Be ready to share writing you’re working on, the prompt, etc. and talk with your WA in real time. The Writing Center is a “drop-in center” not a “drop-off center.” You cannot send us your paper and expect us to send it back later with feedback.
- Email or send a MS Teams message to the drop-in WA(s) that says 鈥淚 am ready for a conference.鈥�
- Once you and the WA connect, you can decide to continue the conference on Microsoft Teams or a mutually-agreed-upon alternate platform such as looking at the submitted document together while talking on the phone.
- Need help? Try our “How To Initiate a Drop-in Conference” video on our Handouts and Workshop Videos page.
- Looking for a WA who’s knowledgeable about a certain subject? View our WAs’听
Are you a graduate/SPS student? WAs can serve as sympathetic first readers for graduate/SPS students during drop-in hours, working on higher order concerns such as interpreting prompts, paper organization and development, or checking citation format. WAs may direct graduate students back to their professors if asked content-based questions they don’t feel qualified to answer or to Melissa Pavlik for grammar/ESL concerns.