Languages & Literature - Writing Center 

The Writing Center staff offers help and feedback at all stages of your writing process. We offer individual help with:

• considering audience and purpose
• finding a thesis
• organizing and developing an argument
• identifying and resolving problems of sentence structure, grammar, and punctuation
• using style manuals (MLA, APA, etc.) for writing in various disciplines.

While we do not proofread, we will help identify patterns of error. We also offer help preparing for the Writing Proficiency Exam, the PRAXIS, and the MCAT, and writing essays of application for graduate and professional school, resumes, and cover letters.

For emergency aid when the DSU Writing Center is not open, try Purdue University’s On-line Writing Lab. Although they cannot read your essays, you can use the site to find information on the following topics:

• grammar and punctuation
• common ESL (English as a Second Language) problems
• writing using research
• MLA style
• APA style
• resumes and cover letters

Another helpful site is Rutgers Professor Jack Lynch’s “Getting an A on an English Paper,” which gives

For help avoiding plagiarism, go to DSU’s Roberts-LaForge Library Plagiarism Prevention guide.

Faculty Tutors:   Susan Allen Ford, Writing Center Coordinator
                        John R. Ford 
                        D. Allan Mitchell
                        Marilyn Schultz 

Peer Tutors:       Michelle Delahoussaye
                        Jessi Malatesta

                        Lydia McCalop                     

                        Jonathan Smith