The Writing Center of Moorpark College provides assistance in all areas of written communication. Located on the third floor of the new library, this center provides a plethora of services to students ranging from one-on-one help to writing workshops.
Kathryn Adams, Writing Center Coordinator, expresses the importance of proper written communications.
“Writing is the act of taking ideas or actions and sharing them in a form that others can see,” said Adams. “Writing makes a thought a reality; it brings an unobserved event into the observable form. All fields demand writing, all courses use some form of written communication…The writing center, through tutoring, workshops, and special events, provides a chance for students to improve that skill regardless of what writing level they already posses and where the writing skills will be applied.”
The workshops will cover a variety of areas to help students gain an in-depth knowledge of a topic, or explore new writing skills.
Adams explains that many students “…might be creative, full of insight, and even have an excellent understanding of the rhetorical modes, but that same student might never have been taught how to avoid a run-on sentence.”
The Writing Center hopes to provide help for these types of students and their workshops are aimed to encourage growth that will ultimately encourage growth in related writing skills. An added Writing Center activity will launch on March 21 as we begin to host “Faculty Readings”. Faculty at Moorpark who have published writing will read from their works once a month at the Writing Center.
This event will be coupled with a Writing Workshop. March is Citation Month (or Avoid Plagiarism month) at the writing Center, and workshop dates are as follows:
* MLA Citation: English and many undergraduate gen ed.: February 27, 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.; March 2, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.; and March 19, 6:00 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
* Chicago Manual and AAA: citing for History and Anthropology: March 6, 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
* APA Citation: citing for psychology, sociology, medicine, and educational professions March 13, 5:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.; and March 16, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.
