Writing

The results are in from the student writing contest

Check out the reception photos and images of the winners of the Learning Centre's inaugural Student Writing Contest!

Writing Resources

We've assembled some of the best writing resources to help you start your writing assignment, fine tune the grammar, sentence structure, and punctuation; and find writing success at College. Resource topics include:

  • Overview of the Writing Process
  • Your Identity as a Writer
  • Common Writing Assignments
  • Citations and Formatting
  • Academic Integrity and Plagiarism
  • Writing with Sources
  • Sentence Structure and Punctuation

Click here to access these resources.

Book an Appointment

Peer tutors help with written assignments for all Douglas College courses at any stage of the writing process. 

You can get feedback on your writing from a tutor in two ways:

REAL-TIME

Peer tutors can meet with you for 25/55-minute sessions in-person at the New West or Coquitlam campus or via Zoom.

In your tutoring session, tutors will support you in your writing process in the following ways: 

  • help you evaluate and understand the assignment instructions
  • discuss your questions about your writing
  • review writing techniques, such as thesis development, organization and use of topic sentences
  • suggest methods for improving your reading practices and writing
  • identify error patterns in your writing and help you improve your editing skills

SUBMIT A DRAFT

Upload your writing assignments, and tutors will respond with questions, feedback and resources to improve your writing.

Group studyhttps://writeaway.ca/connect

As a Douglas College student, you may also submit your assignments to WriteAway tutors for feedback.

WriteAway is a service in BC that gives students at participating institutions the opportunity to receive online writing assistance.

Qualified tutors from each of the participating institutions staff the service and provide feedback on students' draft writing assignments.

Academic Integrity and Plagiarism

Book a tutoring session to review your understanding and skills for avoiding plagiarism. Choose the following appointments from the drop-down menu when making an appointment.

Avoiding Plagiarism
  • To learn how to paraphrase and quote effectively, without plagiarizing. 
  • In this appointment, you’ll focus on developing your paraphrasing and ability to use sources as evidence in your writing assignments. The tutor will introduce you to Douglas College Learning Centre resources available.  
  • If you have a writing assignment you are currently working on where you are integrating sources as evidence, please bring it to this session.  A graded assignment will also work to review concepts with the tutor.
Using Sources and Citations
  • To learn how to access and follow guides and manuals in order to use APA, MLA and other citation styles to format your writing assignments, as well as how to connect with a librarian for support with citation formatting.
  • In this appointment, you’ll learn how to find the formatting and style rules needed for your assignments, as well as what aspects of the style and formatting are important in most college assignments. The tutor will introduce you to resources available, as well as help you come up with a plan to keep learning the skills needed.
  • When booking your appointment, choose the citation style you want to learn about to ensure that you meet with a tutor who is familiar with that particular set of formatting and style rules.
Other Academic Integrity Topics
  • To increase awareness of the principles and concepts behind academic integrity and intellectual property, and to answer questions about academic integrity concepts beyond plagiarism and citations.
  • In this appointment, you’ll build on your understanding of academic integrity. The tutor will also introduce you to Douglas College resources available, as well as help you come up with a plan to keep learning the skills needed.

Learn more about academic integrity resources at Douglas College. 

More Tutoring Support


Need a Sign Language Interpreter

  1. Book an appointment with a tutor or an English Language Learning Specialist
  2. Please visit Accessibility Services webpage and then email ASinterpreters@douglascollege.ca for booking a Sign Language Interpreter (preferably 48 hours in advance)
  3. Share the booking information with your interpreter:
    • For an on-campus appointment: please share the time and location of the appointment
    • For a Zoom tutoring appointment: please share the time and the Zoom link of the appointment