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Sabancı University Writing Center is a unit of The Center for Individual and Academic Development [CIAD], which is comprised of five units that aim at assisting and encouraging Sabancı University students to strengthen their personal and academic skills. The other four units of CIAD that the Writing Center works with in close cooperation and collaboration are: Academic Support, Tutorial, Civic Involvement Projects, and Individual Counselling.

The Writing Center creates a learning environment in which students can work to attain the highest possible level of written English. The Center?s goal is to provide guidance, assistance, and reinforcement to students for competence in academic discourse. The Writing Center faculty fulfils this aim by organizing a wide range of workshops and tutorials as well as individual support assisted by peer tutors.

All Sabancı University students are provided guidance and assistance at any stage in the writing process. A tutor can help a student in a variety of ways: to brainstorm or conceive an idea at the concept stage of a paper; to improve the structure and focus of a written piece at the early draft stage; and to assist in further revisions or final editing.

Interactive workshop series provide an overview of the techniques of the composing and editing processes and the rhetorical modes with ample support materials as models or guidelines at different levels of sophistication. Writing tutorials focus on the specific individual needs or interests of students. By creating interest for writing and establishing the notion of writing as a discipline, the Writing Center tries to encourage Sabancı University students to develop as expressive, analytical, critical, and persuasive writers.

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Education Reform Initiative

Education Reform Initiative (ERI) was launched within the Istanbul Policy Center at Sabancı University in 2003 with the aim of improving education policy and decision making through research, advocacy, and monitoring. Within this framework, ERI has defined its reform priorities and program areas in accordance with its commitment to the ideal of ?quality education for all?:

REFORM PRIORITIES

1- EQUAL ACCESS
Program Areas: Early Childhood Education, Gender Equality
2- QUALITY AND EFFECTIVENESS
Program Areas: Critical Thinking, Curriculum and Textbooks, Higher Education, Right To and Rights In Education, Student Selection Systems, Teachers, Vocational Education and Training
3- GOVERNANCE AND RESOURCES
Program Areas: Education and Demographics, Education Finance
4- EDUCATION POLICY CULTURE AND PRACTICES

Its institutional supporters are:
AÇEV Mother Child Education Foundation
Aydın Doğan Foundation
Bahçeşehir University
Enka Foundation
Hedef Alliance
Kadir Has Foundation
Sabancı University
TAV Tepe Akfen Airports
Vehbi Koç Foundation
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