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Thomas D. Clark Study

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Location:
W. T. Young Library, Thomas D. Clark Study, 5th Floor, West Wing
Phone: 257-1368
Summer 2009 Hours:
Summer One (May 12 - June 9):
Monday - Thursday: 10:30am-4:00pm
Summer Two (June 11 - August 6):
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 12:00pm-6:00pm
Wednesday: 10:00am-4:00pm
No Drop-Ins:
Tuesday June 9
Thursday August 6
Schedule an Appointment Online
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Services
If you would like to schedule an appointment in advance, please call (257-1368)
or schedule one online, but we
also accept drop-in visits. If you come without an appointment, we try to have
consultants available on the half-hour to assist you.
Please bring your assignment sheet (and any other information about your
project) with you to the consultation. Also, if you prefer to work on a
computer, please bring along a jump drive.
Late Policy
Due to high demand, we are only able to hold appointments for five minutes.
After that time, appointments may be given away to walk in clients. For this
reason, it is important that all clients are on time or early for their
appointments, or, if lateness is unavoidable, that clients call to let us know
they are running late.
Mission
The Writing Center assists University of Kentucky students, faculty, and staff
with the process of writing. Staffed by English graduate students, full-time
instructors, part-time consultants, and undergraduate peer tutors, the Center
offers free individual and group consultations on prewriting, writing, and
rewriting.
We respond in this way because we believe that writing isn't like laundry: it's
not something you can drop off for cleaning, then pick up an hour later. We
believe that the best way to help you write a better paper (or resume, or
letter) is to help you think in productive, sometimes even exciting ways about
yourself as a writer. We try to help you think about the purpose of your
particular writing (aside from getting a good grade!), about the audience for
your writing and your relation to that audience, and about ways to organize
your writing--from sections to paragraphs to sentences to individual words and
marks of punctuation.
We respond as we do, in other words, because we're committed to helping you
become a better writer. If you work with us on a single piece of writing
through several sessions, there may well come a time when it's appropriate to
focus on grammar, punctuation, and other editing matters. As a general rule,
however, that's not where we start in our responses to your work.
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