NPHC grade requirements?

[alum]

Many schools have writing centers for their undergraduates including all of the highly selective Ivies:
http://www.brown.edu/Student_Services/Writing_Center/
http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/classes/writing.php
http://lsc.sas.cornell.edu/
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/se..._student.shtml
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/
http://writing.upenn.edu/critical/help/
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/writi...er/WCAbout.htm
http://www.yale.edu/bass/AbouttheWritingCenter.html


I would expect to see a writing center at an engineering school but an Ivy?

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by alum

Many schools have writing centers for their undergraduates including all of the highly selective Ivies:
http://www.brown.edu/Student_Services/Writing_Center/
http://www.college.columbia.edu/core/classes/writing.php
http://lsc.sas.cornell.edu/
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/se..._student.shtml
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/
http://writing.upenn.edu/critical/help/
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/writi...er/WCAbout.htm
http://www.yale.edu/bass/AbouttheWritingCenter.html


I would expect to see a writing center at an engineering school but an Ivy?

But I don't think Writing Center necessarily equals a remedial program, does it?

I think Writing Centers just got to be really trendy and they are probably a way of keeping professors from having to read undergraduate drafts but making sure someone is available to read them.

ETA: if you look at the topics for programs offered at the first link, they don't really look remedial. The Cornell link doesn't even seem to offer writing help. It may just be the way I think of remedial programs. The schools I was thinking of require students to take non-credit but tuition classes before they are eligible to take the first credit course in the sequence.

[DSTCHAOS]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

But I don't think Writing Center necessarily equals a remedial program, does it?

Nope.

Writing centers are just resources for students (undergrad and sometimes grad--eventhough undergrads use them the most). Most undergrads at most colleges and universities need help with their writing. And even students who write well need help organizing and writing papers.

Most people, in general, need help with their writing--including many graduate students and many faculty and professionals--reviewers for journals have a field day over some submissions.

None of my universities have remedial English. There are intro English classes, the writing centers, and the disabilities services centers.

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by alum

Many schools have writing centers for their undergraduates including all of the highly selective Ivies.


I would expect to see a writing center at an engineering school but an Ivy?

I went to two of the writing centers you linked to so the counselors could look at my honors and masters' theses. Basically, I was so sick of reading them by the time they were due that I wanted another set of eyes on them. Also, I wanted to make sure I had Chicago Style down, since most of my papers in college were MLA; both theses had to be Chicago Style. It worked out really well, since both have been published since I graduated and it cut down on the amount of editing I had to do in order to send them to the journals.

A writing center is not the same thing as a remedial class.