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:
   

  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