Writing Center
The Writing Center is designed to support your academic success and linguistic excellence in English. The Writing Center welcomes students from all majors to improve their understanding and communication skills in English and enhance the quality of their writing for all purposes.
Center for learning excellence
Our Mission
Writing Center Tutors are trained and certified to support their peers in becoming strong writers by following the Socratic methods of tutoring. Students are encouraged to use the services provided by the Writing Center to sharpen their writing skills regardless of their level or academic discipline.
The Writing Center’s primary goal is to enhance students’ academic writing skills and support them in becoming stronger writers. Through peer tutoring, tutors and tutees can sharpen their skills and strengthen their confidence as writers realizing their full academic and creative potential together.
Our Writing Tutors Are Certified
The Writing Center provides highly qualified and trained tutors to meet your needs. Our tutors go through a comprehensive training process so they can best support tutees in overcoming writing weaknesses and difficulties.
Certification
Our Peer Mentoring Program is Certified!
The Center for Learning Excellence has been granted a five years certification for both our tutoring and our mentoring services by the CRLA. The College of Reading and Learning Association (CRLA) is an American based organization whose mission is “to provide a forum for the interchange of ideas, methods, and information to improve student learning and to facilitate the professional growth of its members.” We are currently the only center in Africa and the Middle East that holds the following stage three certifications: The International Tutor Training Program Certification (ITTPC) as well as The International Mentor Training Program Certification (IMTPC). To know that we get to keep this tittle until 2024 is truly a privilege that reflects the hard work of our team and the enormous support of the AUI community.
How to prepare for a session?
It is highly recommended that you prepare before you come to the session in order to achieve the best results.
Preparing questions will help you identify the difficulties you have and make the tutor aware of the main themes you want to cover in your session.
Determine and vocalize your needs as doing so will help your tutor best support you in achieving your desired skills and outcome.
Your professor’s feedback is very important as he or she is the one who will be grading your work. This will help you and your tutor remain on the right track to improve the quality of your writing.
The role of the tutor is not to grade your assignments or assess them the same way your professor would. Your tutor is there to help you sharpen your skills and detect your weaknesses without grading your work.