Writing Across the Curriculum
Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) supports excellence in critical thinking and writing in all undergraduate programs and classes at Loyola. WAC offers a variety of services to help students improve their writing and to assist faculty in designing effective writing assignments.
Student Tutoring Services
WAC provides free tutoring on writing assignments, including:
- Analytical essays
- Argumentative essays
- Response papers
- Research papers in all majors
- Book reports and reviews
- Film and drama reviews
- Lab reports
- Critiques
- Proposals, business reports, letters, and memos
- Service learning writing projects
Students receive help with all phases of the writing process, from brainstorming ideas to synthesizing sources, tightening arguments, and revising for clarity and style. WAC tutors do not edit or correct students' papers; instead, they work with students to help them strengthen their critical thinking skills and improve their own writing.
Tutor Training
WAC writing tutors, who are drawn from a broad range of majors, are trained to help students with the rhetorical conventions, formats, writing practices, and citation demands of the differing academic disciplines. All first-semester writing tutors enroll in English 491, "Practicum in Teaching Writing," and take additional tutoring workshops throughout subsequent years on staff. In addition, beginning tutors are paired with experienced tutors who mentor them during the first year, include them as observers in tutoring sessions, and answer questions that arise about tutoring situations and resources
Resources
WAC administers a writing center and electronic classroom in Room 100 Bobet Hall where students can conduct Internet research, draft papers, consult with writing tutors, and revise their work. The writing center makes available a library of print and online resources for writers, including discipline-specific guides to college writing, dictionaries, handbooks, grammar guides, style and citation guides, and other resources.
Locations
WAC's tutorial services are available on a drop-in basis six days a week; tutoring is offered in a variety of locations, including
- The WAC Writing Center, Room 100, Bobet Hall
- The Reference Desk, First Floor, Monroe Library
- Off-campus via phone consultations and e-mail
Schedule for the Writing Center in Bobet Hall:
9 am - 9 pm Mondays through Thursdays
9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. on Fridays
12 - 5 p.m. Sundays.
Faculty Services
WAC provides one-on-one consultation services to faculty who want to incorporate writing as a learning tool in their classes. In these consultations, WAC professional staff work with faculty to design sequenced writing assignments for their courses, prepare guidelines for students on approaches to each assignment, and develop grading rubrics that help students identify the strengths and weaknesses of their writing. WAC staff also offer workshops on these topics as well as others upon request.
Address:
Loyola University New Orleans
Campus Box 40
New Orleans, LA 70118
Location: Bobet Hall, Room 100
Phone: (504) 865-2297
