The Writing Center
The SIUE Writing Center assists students and faculty/staff across the curriculum, and at all levels, to further develop their writing skills in order to become confident and independent writers and thinkers. Through individual consultations the Writing Center will help students to: brainstorm on a topic, organize thoughts, outline an assignment, develop support, integrate research, learn a “style” of writing, identify and fix errors, and much more. Please keep in mind that the Writing Center will not simply fix mistakes or write a paper for a student; instead, the consultants will teach students how to improve their work. For more information, or to schedule a 30 minute consultation, please call our front desk (650-2045), visit our website (siue.edu/lss/writing), or stop by our main location – SSC 1254 (inside the Academic Advancement Center).
iThenticate
Like Turnitin, iThenticate is an intellectual property verification tool that checks documents for originality in order to prevent plagiarism. While Turnitin is used primarily for reviewing student assignments, iThenticate is designed for more scholarly academic works. Students can utilize iThenticate for verifying the originality and correctly cited sources in graduate student theses and dissertations and faculty are able to use the tool to verify research grants and other professional works.
After a document is submitted to iThenticate, a Similarity Report will be generated that indicates how much of the document matches other sources.
Grad Resources
Grad Resources is an external website that is available to all graduate students. Grad Resources provides assistance with mentoring and offers a crisis help-line specifically for graduate students.