The Writing Lab
OSU-OKC's Writing Lab features highly-qualified writing coaches who are here to help you with any type of writing assistance you may need in ALL subject areas.
Please check out the tutor schedule to connect with a writing coach, or even better – click here to make an appointment.
Faculty: add the SSOC Writing Lab to your syllabi
Below you’ll find a brief summary of the SSOC’s Writing Lab services that you may copy/paste to your class syllabus or course schedule:
I strongly encourage you to use the Student Success and Opportunity Center’s Writing Lab. The Writing Lab offers free, individualized help with writing for OSU-OKC students on any assignment. So, whether you are writing a composition paper, lab report, resume, statement for an application, or your own poetry, the Writing Lab coaches are happy to work with you. Their services are not for fixing your writing “problems.” Instead, the writing coaches will help you to develop strategies that will improve you as a writer in the long run. The Writing Lab’s philosophy is to produce better writers, not better writing!
The Writing Lab is located in the Learning Resource Center (LRC) Room 228.
Questions?
Call (405) 945-3278.
Writing Tips and Strategies for Students
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- Finding Sources, Dcumentation, and Writing Style Tip Sheets
- Essay Writing Tip Sheets
- Style and Sentence Structure Tip Sheets
- Strategies for Successful Students
Avoiding Plagiarism
- Avoiding Plagiarism
- Should I Cite This?
- Plagiarism FAQ
- Paraphrase, Summary, and Quote
- Best Practices to Avoid Plagiarism
- Plagiarism Tutorial
Finding Sources, Documentation, and Writing Style Tip Sheets
- Rules and Conventions for Academic Writing Style
- MLA Practice Template
- Sample MLA Outline
- Student Paper Formatting-APA Seventh Edition
- Identifying Scholarly Sources Flow Chart
- MLA Primary Research Citation Guide
- Periodicals Diagram
- Selecting a Topic and Writing a Literature Review
- Article Types
- Primary Sources
- Database Search Tips
- How Do I know if a Source is Scholarly?
- Primary versus Secondary Sources
- Identifying and Evaluating Sources
- News/Media Literacy, Fact-Checking, and Popping your Filter Bubble
Essay Writing Tip Sheets
- How to Write a Critical Response
- Article Summary
- Audience
- Basic Essay Format
- Critical Analysis Template
- Introductions and Conclusions: The Funnel Method
- Writing Effective Introductions and Conclusions
- Introductions and Conclusions
- Oreo Essay
- The Paramedic Method of Revising Sentences
- Prewriting Invention Strategies
- Prewriting Strategies
- Punctuation
- Revising the Draft
- Rogerian Model
- Rules and Conventions for Academic Writing Style
- Scientific Method
- Toulmin Argument
- Toulmin Schema
- Writing Essays
Style and Sentence Structure Tip Sheets
- Which Grammar Checker Should I Use?
- Active Verbs List
- Adverb List
- Arguing about Language
- Avoiding Redundancy
- Fragments
- Independent Clauses
- Run-ons and Comma Splices
- Sentence Type and Purpose
- Transitions