Center for Academic Achievement (CAA)/Writing Center

Description of the Center for Academic Achievement Center:

The CAA is the Center for Academic Achievement Center at FGCU located in the library in room 103 West. To get to the CAA, if you’re walking from the Cohen Center, you go straight to the library and go to the entrance to the right of the Starbucks and there you will find it directly to your left. Now you may wonder what types of services are available at the CAA and how it would benefit a student to go there. Some of the services the CAA provides are academic coaching, instructional support tutoring, supplemental instruction, and soar to success workshops. Each of these different types of services allows for students to receive help in many different aspects of their life in order to help them manage their life as a college student.

FGCU CAA Hours of Operation:

The CAA is open Monday through Friday from 8am to 5pm. However, it isn’t a place where you can just walk in and get immediate help. At the CAA you must have your Eagle I.D and you must schedule an appointment at least one day in advance and you are only allowed two appointments a week. In order to schedule an appointment, you can walk in or you can call them at (239)-590-7906 and for updates on the CAA you can follow them on all social media @fgcu_CAA.

CAA Services Research:

First, one of the services the CAA offers is academic coaching which is instruction that helps to provide a learning environment to help the students to develop skills that in which are directly correlated to academics as well as skills that are indirectly correlated. Some of these skills include how to study effectively as well as taking a test, how to develop the motivation for success, how to utilize campus resources, and organization strategies. Another service provided by the CAA is supplemental instruction. Supplemental Instruction is another way for students to enhance their ability to understand the concepts of a class by attending sessions with a student that received at least a B+ in the class in which you are looking for help in and there are regularly scheduled review sessions where you can meet people taking the same class and can even develop study groups of your own. Tutoring is also provided by the CAA in which there is one on one tutoring for a specific class which is a scheduled appointment. The tutoring can also be a small group walk-in format as well if you didn’t make an appointment. If you have any questions about tutoring you can feel free to email or call Gail Mishler the Tutoring Services Coordinator at gmishler@fgcu.edu or (239)-745-4407. There are also scheduled workshops open to everyone that range from a variety of different topics like writing skills and on how to stay focused throughout the school year.

Sources:

Center for Academic Achievement, www2.fgcu.edu/CAA/academiccoaching.html.

Center for Academic Achievement, www2.fgcu.edu/caa/.

Center for Academic Achievement, www2.fgcu.edu/CAA/tutoring.html.

Center for Academic Achievement, www2.fgcu.edu/CAA/si.html.

Center for Academic Achievement, www2.fgcu.edu/CAA/workshops.html.

Writing Center

Description of Writing Center:

The FGCU Writing Center is a place for anyone who needs help with writing essays or any writing in general. You can see tutors who have great amounts of experience in the process of writing an essay and what the paper needs to have (paragraph structure, thesis Statement, different types of writing). They offer free sessions to help you build your writing skills. The location of the writing center is in the library room 202. Here is how to get there 1. Once leaving the Cohen Center walk straight to the library through library lawn 2. Once entering the library take a right to the Research Help desk 3. When you arrive at the Research Help desk take a right towards the sliding double doors 4. Once entering through the sliding double doors take a right and there will be a door to the stairwell 5. Walk up to the 2nd floor and go straight 6. You have arrived at the FGCU Writing Center.

FGCU Writing Center Hours of Operation

The FGCU Writing Center is open from 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday

For walk-in sessions you will need to sign in, to check in on wait times and if there are any tutors available you can check their facebook and twitter or you can call them ahead of time at (239)-590-7141

FGCU Writing Center Tutors

The FGCU Writing Center have 7 consultants who are trained in different writing backgrounds and are available to help a student understand what they need to write an excellent paper and different types of writing strategies to help students achieve their writing goals not only in college but beyond.

FGCU Writing Center Research

The FGCU Writing Center not only offers free one-on-one sessions to help improve your writing skills but they also offer workshops, handouts, and group projects to help further improve your writing skills. The goal of the FGCU Writing Center is to improve your writing skills so you can succeed not only in college but in your profession as well. The FGCU Writing Center also helps improve your writing skills to develop college-level writing.The FGCU Writing Center offers two thirty-minute sessions per day. When you are finished with your thirty minute session it is recommended that you take a break to revise your work before coming back for another session. Before arriving if you want to check the wait times you can call or check their twitter which is has updated wait times For more information about the writing center and to schedule one-on-one or group sessions go to https://www2.fgcu.edu/writingcenter/

Sources:

FGCU Writing Center, https://www2.fgcu.edu/writingcenter/

FGCU Writing Center,https://www2.fgcu.edu/WritingCenter/about.asp

FGCU Writing Center,https://www2.fgcu.edu/WritingCenter/meetourconsultants.asp

FGCU Writing Center,https://www2.fgcu.edu/WritingCenter/studentresources.asp

FGCU Writing Center,https://www2.fgcu.edu/WritingCenter/index.asp

FGCU Writing Center,https://www2.fgcu.edu/WritingCenter/what-to-expect.html