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Essays, Labs, Letters, and Résumés

This section contains general advice and links to help you write essays, labs, personal statements, letters, and resumes. If you visit the Writing Center, you can work with a tutor on your own writing projects and letters.
  • Audience and Purpose: Step One. When beginning a writing task, you should first consider your audience and the multiple goals of the task.
  • Improving Your Writing Process: Step-by-step, this article moves you through the stages of writing with general guidelines.
  • LabWrite: This tool, developed with support of the National Science Foundation, works you through the process of writing a lab report for science courses. If you're unsure how to do so, you may find resources here.
  • Engineering labs, reports, memos: Here you can find clear explanations of engineering tasks with helpful examples.
  • Professors' Guides: This section holds guides and notes given to us by professors. If you're looking for advice on writing for someone specific, check here.
  • Résumés:  WCenter tutors will help you create your resume or edit it.