These are just the tip of an iceberg of reasons to "AskCTC", the Hanson Center for Technical Communication's on-line writing help desk. Think of AskCTC as a supplement to our sign-up appointment schedule. We can help you at any hour of the day with specific questions you may have about your assignment--you can even paste into the body of your e-mail a particular phrase, sentence, or paragraph you've written.

Short of visiting the Center in room 2224 SC for a sign-up appointment, AskCTC is the best source on campus for engineering students seeking practical and attentive answers to their writing and presentation questions.

I Ask...Who Answers?

Our staff of peer consultants will respond in a timely manner (within 24 hours on weekdays during the fall and spring semesters) to your e-mailed queries and/or writing samples. We feel that AskCTC is an ideal forum for modeling the practice of technical communication. In many ways, the back-and-forth exchange of ideas and possibilities mirrors the collaborative nature of professional engineering...particularly when readers and writers share the same discipline-specific interests and aspirations, as do our peer consultants and their fellow engineers-in-training.

The process couldn't be easier. Send us your questions and/or writing samples pasted into the body of your message (no more than one or two paragraphs) to:
askctc@engineering.uiowa.edu

Note: We cannot accept or respond to attachments of any kind (i.e., MS Word documents, zip files, etc.)

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