The Mesa Community College Writing Center provides free one-on-one writing tutoring support for any class or discipline at Mesa Community College as well as support with reading and ESL coursework. Our tutoring services are available on a drop-in basis (no appointment is needed!). While writing tutors cannot edit or proofread students' papers, they will help students develop the skills and strategies they need to meet their writing goals.
Writing Center tutoring is available in person and online during our hours of operation.
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Writing Center Services
The Writing Center can help currently enrolled MCC students with reading, ESL coursework, and writing at any stage of the writing process. Visit the Writing Center for help with:
- Formulating a thesis statement
- Improving the clarity of your writing
- Exploring, developing, and organizing ideas
- Meeting MLA/APA style guidelines
- Meeting assignment requirements
- Finding, integrating, and citing sources
- Developing strong editing and revision strategies
- Understanding assignment criteria
- Avoiding plagiarism
- Reading skills & strategies
- English grammar
- English listening & speaking practice
The Writing Center is also able to assist students with writing scholarship essays!
Can't meet with a writing tutor during our hours of operation? Submit your writing assignment and your assignment instructions to our asynchronous writing feedback service. A tutor will review your submitted assignment and instructions and provide feedback in 1–3 business days. You will need to self-enroll in the MCC Writing Feedback Canvas course to use this service; self-enrolling in the Canvas course is free and will not affect your grades. For help with the asynchronous writing feedback service, email [email protected].
Handouts
Below are helpful writing, reading, and English language skills resources.
Writing
- Analysis Essays
- Annotated Bibliographies
- Conducting Research
- Designing the College Essay
- Detail
- Email Etiquette
- Evaluating Sources
- Integrating Quotations: Quick Guide
- Integrating Quotations: Some Techniques
- Paragraphs and Paragraph Types
- Paraphrasing: Quick Guide
- Persuasion vs. Argument
- Position Papers
- Proofreading Essay Papers
- Reasons to Quote (Rather than Paraphrase)
- Rhetorical Appeals
- Scholarship Essays
- Summarizing an Article: A Quick Guide
- Summary vs. Analysis
- Thesis Statements
- Understanding the Writing Assignment
- Writing Essays for the MCCCD Foundation General Scholarship Application
Grammar
- Apostrophes
- Articles
- Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences
- Dangling Modifiers
- Essential Grammar for Specific Writing Tasks: Cause and Effect
- Essential Grammar for Specific Writing Tasks: Comparison/ Contrast
- Fragments vs. Sentences
- The Fused Participle
- Helping Verbs
- Indefinite Pronouns
- Perfect Tenses
- Phrases & Clauses
- Semicolon and the Colon
- Subject Verb Agreement
Reading
Student Success Strategies
Helpful Links
For help with…
- MLA, visit Purdue OWL's MLA Formatting and Style Guide
- APA, visit Purdue OWL's APA Formatting and Style Guide
- using Purdue OWL, see this Purdue OWL walkthrough video
- common grammar topics, read Grammarly's blog on different grammar rules
- guided grammar practice, try Khan Academy's free grammar course
- vocabulary, try Vocabulary.com's vocabulary-building game
- TOEFL preparation, try Magoosh's TOEFL Prep & Practice app (trial version is free!) or read Magoosh's TOEFL blog pages