Make An Appointment With A Writing Tutor
Before you come to the writing lab to meet with a tutor, please make sure you have the following with you:

• a solid draft of your paper
• an assignment sheet or assignment information from the professor
• a style manual

Online Writing Lab (OWL)

Hours of operation:

Mission Statement of the BVU Writing Lab:
The Writing Lab has one objective and one objective only; to help each student graduate from BV as a more independent, proficient, talented, confident, and critical writer.

We help students become better writers in the context of sustained one-on-one tutoring sessions or single-visit appointments.  Both types of sessions are shaped to help individual writers gain the confidence and strategies needed to write effectively.

We teach the writing process, including audience analysis, document preparation, invention strategies, research methods, claim and thesis development, as well as project organization, revision, and editing.  We teach students how to write clearly, precisely, engagingly, and thoughtfully.

The Writing Lab at Buena Vista University has trained writing tutors who are available to help you with all aspects of the writing process. Tutors can provide feedback at the initial brainstorming stage; they can read rough drafts and offer constructive advice on fleshing out ideas, tightening prose, improving your organization, proving your thesis, and providing transitions. You may also want to bring in graded papers to go over grammar and punctuation mistakes that keep appearing in your writing.

The Writing Lab tutors can offer guidance and feedback for all kinds of papers from summaries written for a freshman seminar to research papers for advanced classes in your major.