Writing Center Policies

• To best serve all students at APSU, students may make up to 2 appointments per week (2 hours).
• To best serve you and provide the most effective feedback, we require an assignment sheet/prompt turned in with your work. If you did not receive an assignment sheet from your professor, please type in the comment box your understanding of the assignment's purpose and any other details (length requirement, due date, citation style).
• For us to best serve all students, appointments will be marked as a no-show and canceled after 5 minutes for 30-minute appointments and 10 minutes for 1-hour appointments. 
• On average, our tutors can only review the first 2-3 pages of any submission. We only allocated 30 minutes per paper due to the documents we received. If you resubmit, you may specify the pages you want us to review, but we also ask that you only submit about six pages at a time to reduce confusion. If you are a master's or doctorate student, please specify in the comments that you're in a graduate / doctoral program, in addition to submitting your paper in smaller sections.
• You are only allowed two submissions per assignment. After you receive your second round of feedback, you should be given enough guidance to guide the rest of your editing and revision. However, if you need more help, please schedule an in-person appointment or see your professor. Remember, tutors do not edit, revise, or format student papers and our goal is to promote self-improvement and act as guides more than anything else.
• Please wait 24 hours after receiving feedback before resubmitting. This allows us to help other students and gives you time to review our feedback in depth.
• The Writing Center's objective is to help students learn to write better, not to guarantee an A on your paper. To achieve this objective, tutors may focus on two or three types of mistakes in any given visit rather than trying to help students "fix the paper."
• If you need proof of attendance for a professor, please let us know, and we will attach your follow-up tutoring form to our feedback for you to download.
• Group Projects: Indicate on your appointment form that you are with a group for a group project. Tutors can work with multiple group members on their sections; however, we must register each student in our system. We may encourage students to book appointments simultaneously with multiple tutors to receive the best feedback.