Invite us to give a 10-minute in-class introduction to the Writing Center.  

Our peer tutors will come to your classroom to give a friendly, informative overview of how to use our tutoring resources. We’ll let them know where to find us and get them set up with accounts in our scheduling system. Fill out this form and we’ll get back to you confirming a day and time.

Front-load information about the Writing Center. 

Introduce us early in the semester and invite students to work with tutors throughout their process and throughout the semester, not just at the end of a project.  

Link to our online resources. (Coming soon: Writing Center in Canvas Commons!) 

We have numerous writing resources on our website, covering citation styles, sentence-level concerns, and many other topics. Check out what we have and getstudents used to coming to us for support! 

Use tutoring sessions as a supplement rather than a replacement for other forms of feedback.  

Giving and receiving feedback is built into many courses. We don’t want to take away from that! Encourage students to use our tutors to fill in gaps and/or get help implementing feedback they’re getting from other sources.  

Incentivize a visit to the Writing Center. 

Offering students extra credit for meeting with a writing tutor can communicate that you think it’s a worthy investment. It can also help get students in who otherwise might not prioritize trying us out. 

 If you do incentivize or require a visit, here are a couple of additional recommendations: 

 Let students choose how and when to use us.  

Students are much more likely to find the Writing Center helpful if they choose their point of need. And, they’re much less likely to encounter the bottlenecks that can happen when everyone from one course tries to get in for a session in the same short time frame. 

 Ask students to reflect on their visit to the Writing Center.  

Reflecting before a tutoring session can help students think about when in their process they will most need writing support and what kind of help they’d like to request from their tutor. Reflectingaftera tutoring session offers students a chance to consider their writing process, more broadly, or their revision plans, more specifically. 

Other ways the Writing Center can support you and your students: 

Schedule a meeting with our staff and/or tutors to go over an assignment prompt.  

Our tutors read more assignment instructions than anyone else on campus. They see how students make sense of (or don’t make sense of) those instructions. We committed to supporting transparent assignment design.  

Schedule a meeting with our staff to learn about our peer feedback workshops. 

Our peer tutors know how to guide peer feedback. If it’s right for your class, we’ll send tutors in to facilitate an in-class workshop on giving and receiving feedback.