Writing Success Center
The SAC Writing Center offers free services to students, faculty, and staff. Our professional tutors are here to help you with writing from any discipline. Whether you need assistance with understanding an assignment, generating ideas, creating a thesis, or organizing your paper, our tutors can help you improve your writing skills.
We promote student learning and thinking by helping writers focus on issues of meaning and involving them in reflecting on their own work. By building collaborative peer relations with student writers and modeling appropriate academic behavior, we help students build confidence, articulate ideas, acquire strategies, and learn the skills to engage effectively in their writing processes.
Location:
Moody Learning Center (MLC) 200W
Hours:
Monday - Thursday: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Friday: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.+
Saturday: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m.+
Sunday: Closed
+Full tutoring and academic coach support.
Resources:
If you need to meet with a tutor as part of your assignment or at any stage of your writing process, please book an appointment via your ACES account in Navigate to ensure the tutor can help you. See further down the page for our additional tutoring services, such as Walk-ins, Zoom Walk-ins, and Asynchronous tutoring.
We have a few types of tutoring appointments:
- Face-to-Face (F2F)
- Remote Tutoring
Creating a Writing Center Scheduled Appointment
You can now book your F2F or Remote Tutoring sessions via ACES and Navigate. Watch the following video on Steps to Making an Appointment.
- Remote Online Tutoring: We offer remote online tutoring, which is like a Face-to-Face tutoring appointment but through Zoom. We will be offering these Zoom sessions through Navigate. Please call 210-486-1433 or email sac-tutoring@alamo.edu for any scheduling issues on Navigate.
- Email Support Tutoring: The Writing Center is now offering email-based appointments. Much like a F2F appointment, the asynchronous tutor will give suggestions and resources to help you revise your documents. Please see the Email Support Student Guidelines for making an appointment.
- Open Lab: The Writing Center is also an open lab with computers and tables where students can work. The lab will be open for students who need space, technology, and assistance with remote/zoom classes. Headphones with mics will be available.
- Writing Resources: We also have an extensive collection of writing references, handouts, and other books on writing.
- Writing Workshops: The Writing Center also offers workshops for faculty and students upon request.
- Frequent Writer Program: Come three or more times for a tutoring appointment and win cool stuff! See below for details.
Stop by the Writing Center and pick up your Frequent Writer Card.
Research has shown that students who come in for tutoring sessions often and follow the suggestions of the tutors are more likely to increase their grades by a whole letter grade. Therefore, to motivate you to come in and succeed, we have lots of great prizes you can earn after you complete three sessions, The more sessions you come, the more prizes you can get. We will have new prizes for Fall 2022!
Also, after every third tutoring session, your name will be entered in a drawing at the end of the semester! Get smart and get free stuff!
Contact Us
Main number: (210) 486 - 1433
Center lead (Interim)
Gerald F Manahan Jr
Academic Program Coordinator
(210) 486 - 0169
For additional support scheduling appointments:
(210) 486 - 0170
sac-tutoring@alamo.edu
Last updated: August 29, 2024