Services

The Writing Center offers the following services to Moorpark College students at no charge:
  • Individual or group tutoring (also available on-line)
  • Writing Assignment Consultations
  • Workshops
  • Print and electronic handouts on writing
  • Media resources
  • Special events: faculty and student readings; guest speakers

Students may make an appointment for tutoring or may drop-in.

Students will be asked to sign-in with their Student ID numbers.

Workshops

Sessions on Writing

• Breaking Writer’s Block & Overcoming Test Anxiety
Monday, Aug 27 11:00 12:00
Tuesday, Aug 28 5:30 – 6:30
Tuesday, Sept 25 12:00 – 1:00

• On Topic: Understand assignment prompts and write clear thesis statements
Thursday, Aug 30 12:00 – 1:00
Monday, Sept 10 5:30 – 6:30

• Essay Structure
Tuesday, Sept 4 5:15 – 6:15
Friday, Sept 7 12:00 – 1:00
Monday, Sept 24 5:00 – 6:00

• Revising and Editing
Tuesday, Sept 18 12:00 1:00 and 5:30 – 6:30
Monday, Oct 22 12:00 – 1:00 and 5:30 – 6:30
Friday, Nov 30 12:00 – 1:00
Tuesday, Dec 4 12:00 – 1:00

• Getting Started on a Research Paper
Monday, Sept 17 12:00 – 1:00
Wednesday, Nov 21 5:30 – 6:30

• From Research to Writing: effectively incorporating sources
Monday, Oct 8 12:00 – 1:00
Wednesday, Dec 5 12:00 -1:00 and 5:30 – 6:30

• Writing Plein Air: Exercise your creative and descriptive writing skills
Every Thursday, Sept 6 – Dec 6 12:00 – 12:45 Outside 1st floor patio of LLR

• Writing for Clinical and Medical Professions: Patient Plans, Case Studies and more
Monday, Oct 1 12:00 – 1:00

• Writing for Business
Monday, Oct 15 5:30 – 6:30

• Writing for Science and technology: process and lab documentation
Wednesday, Oct 17 5:30 – 6:30

• Making PowerPoint Powerful
Monday, Nov 12 12:00 – 1:00 and 5:30 – 6:30
Friday, Dec 7 12:00 – 1:00



Grammar Workouts

• Sentence structure
Tuesday, Sept 4 12:00 – 1:00

• A Quick Guide to Punctuation
Wednesday, Sept 5 12 – 1 & 5:30 – 6:30
Tuesday, Oct 16 12:00 – 1:00
Monday, Dec 3 5:30 – 6:30

• Punctuation: commas
Friday, Sept 14 12:00 -1:00


• Punctuation: semi colons, colons, dashes
Friday, Sept 21 12:00 – 1:00

• Top Ten Avoidable Grammar Errors
Monday, Sept 24 12:00 – 1:00
Friday, Oct 26 12:00 – 1:00
Tuesday, Nov 12 5:30 – 6:15

• Verb tense
Friday, Sept 7 12:00 -12:45

• Active Voice
Tuesday, Sept 11 12:00 12:30


Citation Workshops

• Avoiding Plagiarism
Tuesday, September 11 5:00 – 6:00

• Summarizing Quoting and Paraphrasing
Monday, Nov. 26 12:00 – 1:00
Wednesday, Nov 28 5:30 – 6:30


• MLA Citation
Friday, Oct 5 12:00 – 1:00
Tuesday, Oct 23 12:00 – 1:00
Monday, Nov 5 5:30 – 6:30
Monday, Dec 3 12:00 -1:00

• APA Citation
Monday, Oct 3 11:00 – 12:00
Friday, Oct 12 12:00 – 1:00

• CM and other Citation formats
Friday, Oct 19 12:00 – 1:00


College Success Workshops
• Academic Time Management
Wednesday, Aug. 29 12:00 – 12:45

• Effective and Efficient Reading and Note Taking
Friday, Aug 31 12:00 – 1:00