Welcome to the Writing Center! ~Write Well; Be Well-Read

Visit the Writing Center for free, one-to-one help with all your writing projects. We provide resources, strategies and techniques across disciplines and genres.

 

What To Know Before Your Conference

Be prepared by being able to access or discuss your assignment and any instructions you have for the assignment you are working on, so our consultants can help you address specific components of the assignment. If you have a draft, that’s great. If not, that’s OK too. We can help you get started!

Here’s how our process works:

  • During our session, we will focus our attention on three points: Conversation, Collaboration, and In-Session Writing.
  • Scheduled sessions are 45-minutes; walk-in sessions are typically 30-minutes.
  • We will begin by talking with our clients to determine how we might best assist them.
  • Next, we will offer some directed feedback that will help our clients work on their projects, i.e., paper, speech, report, etc. during their session.
  • After some In-Session writing, we will reconvene with our clients to discuss their work and offer more feedback and suggestions for future individual and conference work.
  • During our session, we will compose a brief summary of our work together, which will include both a detailed summary of what happened during our session as well as next steps we have outlined. We will then send our report to our clients to reinforce the work we have completed.
  • Should they wish us to do so, we can also send our report to the student’s professor.

The Writing Center Can Help Students:

  • Narrow down topic choices
  • Develop a working thesis statement
  • Organize an outline
  • Organize a rough draft
  • Support a thesis
  • integrate source material into your texts
  • integrate charts, graphs, and other visual elements into your work
  • Integrate documentation

Our Writing Consultants can also help students develop strategies to:

  • Revise a rough draft
  • Edit spelling mistakes
  • Find grammatical errors
  • Recognize areas for revision
  • Format and develop a Works Cited/references page
  • Organize presentations and speeches

Keep in mind that our writing consultants will not start a paper for students. Similarly, Writing Consultants will not simply “fix” a paper for students seeking assistance. Rather, the Writing Consultant’s role is to help students improve their writing skills by answering questions regarding invention, organization, style, content, mechanics, documentation, and so on.

In this way, the Writing Consultant works with students to help them develop strategies for identifying and developing their communication needs.

The Writing Center does not guarantee any grade on edited papers, nor do we comment on instructor directions for the student. Our objective is to help students develop a critical analysis of their work as they begin to define their own effective rhetorical and revision strategies and communication processes.

Fall 2026 Hours
Monday10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Tuesday10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Wednesday10 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Thursday10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
Friday10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
SaturdayClosed
Sunday2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
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