Writing Center Policy Agreement

The University Writing Center offers four locations for your tutoring session. Please see the Locations page for a listing of these locations. When scheduling your appointment, please be sure to specify the location most convenient to you. Also, be sure to check out our online writing lab (OWL) in the drop-down menu.

Tutoring Services only
Please remember that the Writing Center is not an editing or proofreading service. We will work with you to improve your own proofreading and editing skills, but we don't simply correct mistakes for you. We want to help you learn to become your own best proof reader and editor.

Important Session Policies
You can book up to two appointments per week, 10 in a semester, including sessions at any of our locations and through OWL. All appointments are made on the half-hour. If you are more than 10 minutes late for your appointment, you lose the exclusive right to that appointment. After two no-shows, you are prohibited from booking any further appointments.

Session Confidentiality
We believe it is very important to build a sense of trust between tutors and clients by respecting the confidentiality of sessions. We also believe that a collaborative relationship between instructors, tutors, and clients is the most conducive to writing improvement.

Registration
You must register before you can schedule your appointment. Registration only takes a few moments. To register, you must be a Mason student, alumni, or faculty. Click here to access the Writing Center scheduler. Once you get there, follow the prompts for first time users.

By clicking, you acknowledge that you have read the Writing Center policies

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