Our History Writing Tutors:
- Joe Kaplan (Ph.D. Student)
- Ian Gavigan (Ph.D. student)
The History Department's writing tutor is available to help undergraduate students improve their history writing skills.
The writing tutor can:
- Help you to brainstorm ideas for papers and presentations.
- Help you to polish the rough ideas you already have.
- Help you to organize outlines and papers.
- Help you refine a draft.
- Help you create a strong historical argument.
- Help to demystify the ways that historians talk about history.
- Help you turn in the best paper you possibly can.
To give you the best help we can, we ask that you provide the following:
- A copy of your assignment sheet.
- Any brainstorm diagrams, rough work, or writing you have completed for the project.
Spring 2019 Drop-in Office Hours
Van Dyck Hall Room 101D
- Monday: 9:00am - 1:00pm, 3:30 - 6:00pm
- Tuesday: 10:30am - 6:30pm
- Wednesday: 10:30am - 6:00pm
- Thursday: 9:00am - 5:30pm
- Friday: Closed
