Writing Coaching Policies

Our writing coaches work to:
• Understand what features or stages of the writing process the writer has used to compose their work.
• Understand how a writer's thinking about an assignment has affected the written draft.
• Listen carefully to the writer's explanation of the assignment and help the writer deepen his or her sense of audience expectations.
• Help the writer carefully plan the most effective strategies for achieving his or her purpose, and improvinghis or her writing.
• Take instructor’s comments and evaluations seriously, as part of the rhetorical situation within which the student must operate.
• Provide a non-threatening, constructive atmosphere that makes the writing environment a safe place for writers to talk about their work.

Our ultimate aim is to develop better writers who, in turn, produce better work.


Our writing coaches will NOT:
• Provide proofreading or copyediting services.
• Write papers for students.
• "Correct" papers.
• Ignore problems in grammar, spelling, and usage.
• Criticize or otherwise undermine faculty members.
• Question a professor's methods or goals for writing instruction.

Learning Resources Division

Location
Berg Instructional Center (BIC), Room 3040

Phone
(630) 942-3355

E-mail:
sommers@cod.edu