Drop-ins

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Drop-ins across campus

Drop into The Write Spot (on the 2nd floor of South Campus Hall) or Dana Porter Library (next to the circulation desk) and meet with a friendly and experienced peer tutor to talk about understanding your assignment , organizing your thoughts and ideas, communicating your ideas clearly, incorporating your research and citing sources, getting and staying motivated, and whatever else you need help with for your writing or communication assignments in any faculty! 

Winter 2025 dates and times

Drop-ins at Dana Porter Library

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

3:00 to 6:00 p.m.

Tuesday, January 14 to Thursday, April 3, 2025

Drop-ins at the International Experience Centre (IEC)

Wednesdays

1:00 - 2:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Janaury 15 to Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Walk-ins and pre-booked appointments in The Write Spot

For graduate students: Monday to Friday 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

For undergraduate students: Monday to Friday 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Monday, January 20 to Friday, April 4, 2025

What should I bring?

Come prepared with a current draft of your assignment or any rough notes or brainstorming, and any assignment instructions. Please note  that our tutors guide you to see your work as readers would. They can teach you skills and strategies for revising and editing your own work, but they will not correct or change your work for you. 

News and Events

WCC Pop-ups are back!

The WCC is back with another round of pop-up tutoring! Catch us at one of our pop-up booths across campus to get support on your assignments, ask all your writing-related questions, and enter a contest for your chance to win a UWaterloo backpack filled with $300 worth of WStore stuff! 

Dates, times, and locations:

Thursday, March 13

  • MC (outside Math C&D) 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Friday, March 14

  • DC Lobby 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.

Monday, March 17

  • STC Lobby 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
  • Health Expansion Building (EXP near the Starbucks) 1:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Tuesday, March 18

  • EV3 Atrium 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

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