TRIO OWL Policies
Unfortunately, the TRIO OWL can serve TRIO students who are participating in TRIO Quest activities only. TRIO Quest activities include: TRIO ThinkQuest and PhotoEssay.
For those who are not TRIO students and are looking for online writing tutorial advice or handouts, please see our Resources page. Please NOTE that most OWLs look at students' papers from their insitution or program only.
The basic policy for the TRIO OWL is that we will not write your papers for you, BUT we will:
- answer your questions
- help you pick a topic
- help you through the prewriting process, such as outilining information, etc
- highlight areas that are incorrect or need improvement within your writing
- edit some incorrect usage, and then indicate other areas that you should edit in the same way
- direct you to interactivities to help you improve the weaknesses within your writing
- help you with organization and transitions
- guide you to correct citation and fair use rules
The most important policy is that we will praise you for your strengths!
Don't forget that you can turn in the same piece of writing for tutorial more than once. After you send us your writing, make changes to it based on the tutor's suggestions and send it back to us again! We are here to help as many times as you need for your writing!
Important tip: Always run a spell check before you submit your writing.
last revised: 4/28/04