Portal talk:Writing Center

The traditional university writing center is based on students coming in with papers and getting personal attention. How could we arrange it so that students can submit papers for comments? I am in the second year of working in a writing center, and I would be interested in developing this part of the wiki further. --Max 11:10, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

To continue that idea, we need to have a link saying "Submit your paper here" or some such. At the writing center where I work we have an online writing lab. Anybody anywhere (though it is mostly our students and a few local high school students) can submit a paper and get a 1/4 page to 1 page response (sometimes longer if we are feeling REALLY verbose). I would be happy to write a brief article describing how we respond to papers. Once we actually had people submitting papers, I could comment on them and then in the discussion area talk about why I commented in the way that I did. One big question for this: how are we going to attract people here to get their papers edited? Is putting an 'ad' in the Wikipedia reference for Writing Centers valid? Or just word of mouth? Just things to think about. --Max 11:28, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * It's also important that they be able to submit their papers privately; to help avoid both class-wide cheating and pre-publication problems that students may face if the papers were simply plastered all over the internet on Wikiversity. Jade Knight 21:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

You might want to use the wikiversity account at MySpace to somehow announce this facility. --Smithgrrl 03:48, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

On another note, I'm available and could possibly help with this project. Leave me a message if you need help with something. Jade Knight 21:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

An Idea
Hello everybody, may I add this idea on how to submit a paper?

There shall be a page named submissions in this address Portal:Writing Center/Submissions includes instruction to the submitting way, and a list of submitted papers. Anybody wishes to submit a paper of their own to be read should create an individual page in the portal domain with this address: Portal:Writing Center/Submissions/The Paper's name, then go back to the submission page to list their papers their. The comments on the paper should be in the paper's talk page. --Haitham 22:23, 23 October 2006 (UTC)

Essays and essay contests
Essays are an important part of University writing activities. We now have a place and a category for essay contest listing and formation. If this portal is to conduct essay contests through a subpage, please attach Category:Wikiversity Essay Contests to that page and list it at Essay Contests. Thanks CQ 03:13, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Fiction-Writing-Support-Group
A friend of mine (User:JWSchmidt) has recently started the Fiction writing support group. Do you think there should be a link to it from the writing center?
 * Be bold. --JWSchmidt 14:56, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

More content needed!
This place looks pretty empty. Maybe we can get some discussion and activity started up? Here's some of my suggestions, tell me what you think: --Luai lashire 02:11, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I didn't see any such link on the page, so I'm assuming the paper submissions idea never materialized. If everyone agress with Haitham's idea, above, then I think we should implement it.
 * The writing center should probably encourage more writing resources and projects to develop. I'm planning on beginning a collaborative writing group when I'm less busy; what other projects can we cultivate?
 * More links to more things. I can name a good one off the top of my head:  Duotrope's Digest, a search engine for writing markets to help you sell your work.
 * I think it would be cool to have a section on the portal page with links to current writing contests that people might be interested in.
 * We need more "learning by doing" projects, but also more straightforward information. Grammar how-to's, plot, etc.


 * There are many different forms of writing....I wonder what people have in mind when they say, "paper submissions"? --JWSchmidt 03:05, 14 December 2007 (UTC)

I have listed the excellent Writing Center resources in the School of Language and Literature resource catalog--please post any new resources there! Thanks! --Trinity507 03:25, 26 February 2009 (UTC)