Appointments

Writing Consultations

• Consultations begin on the hour and last up to fifty (50) minutes.
• Appointments made at 3:00 p.m. last only 30 minutes (the Center is always closed from 3:30-4:00 p.m.).

• To make an appointment, please go to the Writing Center's home page and then click on the sunburst to go to the online scheduler. Instructions for making appointments are on the online scheduler itself.
  
• You may make appointments up to four weeks in advance.

• You may make one appointment ahead of time per week. But you may drop in twice a day if you wish. There is a sign-up sheet in the Center--you may write your name in up to 3 different time slots for drop-ins.
• For the rest of the semester, there is a one-appointment per week limit in order to provide advice to as many clients as possible during crunch time.
• If you need to see a consultant on a particular day (e.g., Monday) and all the appointment slots on the scheduler are filled for that day, do not lose hope. Use the WAIT LIST option that is direclty underneath each day's block of appointments on the online scheduler. You will be automatically informed by email whenever a cancellation occurs on that day. Then you need to go online and schedule the appointment. We usually have some cancellations every day as clients do not get written what they had hoped to, or as clients encounter other obligations (e.g., an unforeseen meeting with a professor or an emergency in the lab).
• Or, if you prefer, should simply check the online scheduler periodically during that Monday for cancellations. When an appointment has been cancelled, the appointment slot becomes white again. Then simply click on the open slot and make an appointment.
• Please do not phone and ask if there are any openings; the online scheduler will have the most up-to-date information about openings because our staff will be busy working with clients and will not be monitoring the scheduler every minute of the day.
• If you have already booked the appointment limit for a week but need to consult with the Center again during that week, you may be a drop-in client once a day. Check the online scheduler. If there is an open slot, that should be a good time to try to be a drop-in client--be sure to refresh the scheduler before you come to the Center because someone else may have made an appointment for that slot. If there are no available slots, you may come to the Center at 10 minutes after the hour (e.g., at 10:10 a.m., at 11:10 a.m., at 2:10 p.m, at 6:10 p.m.). If the scheduled appointment client has not shown up by then, you will have at least the next 20 minutes of that appointment slot. If the appointment client doesn't appear by 30 minutes past the hour, you can have the rest of the appointment (i.e., you can work for up to 40 minutes with a consultant).
• Please bring your assignment, your work, and your goals to the consultation.
• It is very advisable to make your appointments well in advance since our appointments are often all filled a week or two in advance.

Policies: Cancellations and No-Shows

• To cancel an appointment, please go to the online scheduler and cancel appointments:
  • by 8:30a.m. for morning appointments.
  • by noon for afternoon appointments and evening appointments.
• If you miss an appointment without canceling in advance (i.e., if you are a "no show"), you will not be allowed to make another appointment for two weeks and any pre-existing appointments you have during that two-week period will be cancelled automatically . If you are a no-show a second time, you will not be allowed to make another appointment for a month and any pre-existing appointments will be cancelled for that one-month period. This policy exists to prevent appointment slots from "going to waste" when other clients need them.