Writing Center

We can visit your classrooms for a variety of reasons, the most common of which is to introduce the Center's services.  But we can also come into your classrooms to make presentations about writing issues such as academic honesty and citation ethics, voice, audience, research writing, and citation styles.

In the field of Composition it is generally agreed that peer response is an effective strategy for students learning about writing, given adequate guidance.  There is less unanimity, though, about how best to conduct those sessions: in-class or out-of-class.  If you would like to include in-class sessions but aren't sure how, we can help you understand that.  If you would like to incorporate peer response out of class time but cannot commit the time yourself, the Writing Center can conduct peer response sessions using your specific guidelines.  See also Teaching Writing.

If you assign your students group writing projects, the Writing Center consultants can, with your guidance, help facilitate the writing portion of the assignments.

The Writing Center can help you design assignments appropriate to your pedagogical aims.  Whether you want to confer about the genre or formality of writing assignment to make or about constructing an effective prompt, the Writing Center can help.

If you want to incorporate writing into a class that has not traditionally used writing as a mode of learning or communication, the Writing Center can help you decide which forms may be most appropriate to your teaching goals.

If you're unfamiliar with how to teach any of the elements of writing, the Writing Center can help you in various ways, including personalized individual or group instruction, constructing a PowerPoint presentation on the subject, or modeling a lesson.  See also Teaching Writing.