I got people's suggestions immediately, allowing me more time for revisions and such. Also, my sisters, parents, and friends from home have had the chance to read my paper and give me feedback. A Pace of One's Own . . . The Writing Center hopes to begin by serving Carolina students and developing support for distance learners. As other online writing centers have already demonstrated, online services put students in control of the time, pace, and space in which they develop as writers.
Many students experience writing as a set of mysterious and impossible obstacles.
But writing problems are solvable ones, and our Online Writing Center will help students see that. Tutors will then read and comment on the paper, notifying students via email that when their paper is ready to be retrieved at the Online Writing Center. The system is being developed and pilot-tested this semester and will be extended more widely to the campus in the Fall. New Chalk is jointly produced by Academic Technology and Networks and the Institute for Academic Technology , two divisions of Information Technology Services at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . The opinions found herein, while thoughtful and well-reasoned, are not necessarily the opinions of the aforementioned organizations.