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Writing Resource Center

The Writing Resource Center, located on the second floor of the Jane Bancroft Cook Library, inside the InfoCommons, serves as an extension of the classroom.

Our director and staff  of Student Writing Assistants (SWAs) are trained to work with students at all levels on writing organization, content, and mechanics. We can help you brainstorm for ideas, form a thesis, and back up your opinion in a paper, adapt material for various audiences, even help you overcome writer’s block.

The WRC is also the place to go to help organize your thoughts or to make your writing flow smoothly and correctly. We are also available for a final run-through with an objective reader who can help you identify everything from grammar mistakes to faulty mechanics.

Students come to the center by recommendation of faculty members or through self-referrals and are able to gain help with rhetorical, stylistic, and grammatical concerns that arise in their writing.  

What We Do

One way to understand who we are and what we do is to contrast ourselves with what we’re not: we’re not editors or proofreaders; we don’t pretend to have all the answers. Our hope is that, working together, we’ll arrive at some solutions.

A copy editor or proofreader: A student writing assistant:
  • focuses on the paper
  • aims for short-term goals
  • has a main goal of correcting mistakes
  • serves the writer (who may be absent)
  • reinforces only his/her own skills
  • works only on surface features
  • focuses on the writer
  • works toward long-term goals
  • has a main goal of ensuring that the writer is communicating his/her intended meaning
  • collaborates with the writer; both are active participants
  • learns alongside the writer
  • works with every aspect of writing, from invention to revision

Contact Us

Writing Resource Center
New College of Florida
LBR 227
5800 Bay Shore Road
Sarasota, FL  34243

Email: writing@ncf.edu
Phone:  (941) 487-4506

Jan Wheeler
Director
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