Guidelines for Submitting Email Drafts
The Writing Center has established the following guidelines for students to follow in submitting an emailed draft. Email submissions are accepted at writingc@friends.edu.

• All drafts should be submitted as a WORD attachment to your email. In other words, we can only look at drafts that have been created on Microsoft WORD and then sent as an attachment on your email. Please do not type the whole draft on your email.
  
  
• In your email, tell us what specific class and instructor the assignment is for. Also tell us when the assignment is due.
  
  
• Briefly, in a sentence or two tell us what you were supposed to do in the assignment. (For example: Our PACE Writing I class was to describe an event that had a particular meaning to us and write a 3-4 page personal narrative.)
  
  
• Tell us exactly what you would like for us to look at in your paper. Are you worried about your organization, development, whether or not you have an effective introduction or conclusion, thesis statement, etc.?
  
  
• Remember that we do not proof read drafts; we encourage revising based on the higher order concerns listed above.
  
  
• The response that you receive from a Writing Center consultant will be a paragraph or two with suggestions on how to improve your draft. Note that we will not provide line-by-line corrections, but rather feedback based on your questions.
  
  
• Emails should be submitted during our regular business hours from Monday through Thursday. If you submit something late on Thursday evening, you take a chance that it may not be returned to you until Monday evening.
  
  
• Please allow at least 24 hours for every 3-5 pages submitted to us. If you have a longer paper than 5 pages, we will not be able to look at the whole paper in one session of 20-30 minutes. (For instance, if you have a Life Learning Experiential paper that is 15 pages long and you submit it on Monday afternoon, you may not receive the whole paper back until Thursday afternoon.)
  
  

Because of the overwhelming number of email drafts now coming to the Writing Center, we have had to implement these guidelines. If you are on campus, please come in for a session with our staff. The one-on-one conferences produce great benefits.