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Welcome to the

Writing Center

 

 

 

 

"Say what you have to say, not what you ought."

         --Thoreau, Walden

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Drop-ins are welcome

BYU-I Writing Center Mission Statement

  • We support faculty and serve the student body of BYU-Idaho.
     

  • We believe that everyone is a writer and has something to express through writing.
     

  • We provide a sounding board for new ideas and a place where writers can get a
    personal response to their writing.
     

  • We encourage others to become better writers and thinkers through collaborative
    learning.
     

  • We help with every stage of the writing process, including brainstorming, organizing,
    focusing, revising, editing, understanding grammar, critiquing literature, and researching.
     

  • We try to give others a positive experience with writing, literature, language, and
    research.
     

  • We are still learning about writing through interaction with other writers.
     

  • We work from a hierarchy of ideas because we believe that content comes before
    format, though the end product will be strong in both content and format.

  

  • Our Hierarchy consists of the following rubrics:

 1. Purpose and Control
      --depth of ideas
      -- thesis
      --audience awareness
2. Ideas
     --brainstorming
     --main ideas
     --subordinate ideas 
3. Support/Evidence
     --detail
     --examples
     --facts and stats.
     --case studies 
 4. Coherence
     --focus
     --organization
     --transitions
     --introductions/conclusion
 5. Personal Flavor
     --appropriate voice
     --tone
     --active verbs
 6. Language
     --clarity
     --word choice
     --sentence structure
     --redundancy
  7. Technical Control
     --grammar  ---punctuation   
     --format      --documentation   
 
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