There are many ways to get help in the library. See the Library Help page for all the details.
Drop-in help:
Use our Library Chat service to get help on the spot from a Librarian. Click the Yellow Chat Square in the lower right-hand corner of any library page to chat!
Drop by the Research Help Center on the first floor of Library North to speak to a Student Research Consultant.
The Writing Center (located in Library South/Palmer Wing, Room 1039A) offers a variety of services to all Cal State LA students. You can come in with any type of writing assignment at any stage of the process. They can help you understand the assignment, organize, and revise your paper. They can even help you learn to proofread for your most common mistakes.
"They Say / I Say" demystifies academic discourse and shows students that writing well means mastering some key rhetorical moves--the most important of which is to summarize what others have said ("they say") in order to set up one's own argument ("I say"). Students learn that writing is always part of a larger conversation, and the book provides templates to show students how to bring their own views in conversation with those expressed by others.
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