How a session works
A trained peer consultant watches you run your talk (or role-plays the interview, or the conversation) and gives specific feedback on structure, delivery, nerves and timing — then you try the rough part again. It's practice with a coach, not a lecture on public speaking.
Who uses it
Students in any course with a presentation, job seekers rehearsing the “tell me about a time” questions, non-native English speakers wanting pronunciation reps, and student org officers preparing to run a meeting.
In and around Porter Falls
Support at Porter is deliberately clustered on the first two levels of Halvorsen Library so a student can move from one kind of help to another without leaving the building or re-explaining the situation. Walk-in hours run late Monday through Thursday during the semester, and everything can also be booked through MyPorter.
The practical details
Location: Halvorsen Library, Level 2, next to the Writing Center. Appointments: Free, booked online or drop-in when open. Not just for speeches: Interview prep, group-presentation coordination, and pronunciation practice all count. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Student Success Center (Halvorsen Library, Level 1). Call (715) 555–0170 or email success@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.