The Writing Center staff recognizes that sometimes students' schedules do not allow them to work with a tutor in person. If you cannot come to the Writing Center for a tutorial but would like to receive feedback from a tutor, you may receive it via e-mail.

1. Send your questions and/or your draft by e-mail to writing@catawba.edu.
2. Clarify in the subject heading of your e-mail that you are seeking an online appointment with the Writing Center.
3. Include the following information in the text of your e-mail:
1. Your name
2. The class the paper is for and the professor's name
3. A description of the assignment (a copy of the assignment would be helpful)
4. The due date for the paper
5. What you are concerned about in your paper (for instance, logical organization, clarity, transitions, relating points back to your thesis, etc.)

Please include all of the information listed above, or we will have to ask you for it before we can comment on your paper, which will slow the process down.

Tutors will do their best to respond to you within 48 hours (we are not open on Saturdays, however). Online responses are completed during our regular hours, so a paper sent late on Tuesday night will not receive a response before we open on Wendesday, for example. Moreover, tutors prioritize in-person appointments. If tutors' appointments are fully booked, they may not be able to read and respond to your work.

After a tutor responds to your paper, an e-mail will be sent to your professor to notify him/her of your visit.

NOTE: Tutors will give you advice and strategies to improve your paper, but they will not tell you what specifically to write, and they will not correct the errors in your paper, though they can explain techniques to find and correct types of errors you consistently make.

Our goal is to make you a better writer by focusing your attention on issues you need to address and by giving you strategies designed to address those issues.

Questions?
If you have questions, please send an e-mail to writing@catawba.edu.