
Wittenberg Writing Center "A metaphor is like a simile." - Author Unknown

Wittenberg Writing Center Crunch Time!: Learn to build revision into your composing process. Many students arrive in college proud of their ability to crank out a paper in a single draft. But nearly all of us discover that our papers (and grades!) improve when we take time for a careful second look at a draft, and then for some re-writing.

Wittenberg Writing Center Conclusions: Don't simply repeat things that were in your paper. They have read it. Show them how the points you made and the support and examples you used were not random, but fit together.

Wittenberg Writing Center "Procrastination is opportunity's assassin." - Victor Kiam [Get started today!!]

Wittenberg Writing Center Advisors On the Go! Writing Center advisors will be holding hours in Polis and Woodlawn tonight (Thursday, November 19th), from 9 to 11 pm. Sessions are thirty minutes long, and there are sign-up sheets in each building. If you've got a paper due in the next week, stop by and talk with us. You don't even need to have a draft!

Wittenberg Writing Center Writing Tip of the Week: Homonyms are words that share the same spelling or pronunciation, but have different meanings. Switching accept with except or complement with compliment could be disastrous, so pay attention to them.

Wittenberg Writing Center "A writer doesn't solve problems. He allows them to emerge." - Friedrich Dürrenmatt

Wittenberg Writing Center Writing Tip: Pay attention to punctuation, especially to the correct use of commas and periods. These two punctuation marks regulate the flow of your thoughts, and they can make your text confusing even if the words are clear.

Wittenberg Writing Center “The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean” - Robert Louis Stevenson

Wittenberg Writing Center Tip Time! --> Less is more. Saying a few words in clear, concise language is much more valuable than trying to make your writing “sound more scholarly” by using confusing words and sentences. Your readers will appreciate it a lot more.

Wittenberg Writing Center "If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper." ~ T.S. Eliot













