The central purpose of the Writing Center is to provide one-on-one and small group tutoring. Our trained staff works with students regardless of where they are in the writing process, be that understanding an assignment, learning strategies for reading more effectively, developing stronger arguments, or mastering techniques for editing grammar.

Tutoring sessions typically last up to one hour per week per semester and are driven by what students perceive as their needs. In other words, our tutors resist programming sessions around their own imposed assessment of the student's writing issues and instead work to have the student direct the sessions around a mutually agreed upon agenda.

This approach to tutoring fits with our mission to empower student writers and to help students become aware of how assuming agency in their writing can positively influence their understanding and performance of the writing process. We also invite students to work in small groups when they share common issues or come from the same course. Collaborative peer work, when facilitated by our tutors, can foster the development of community and also help student writers grow in relation to each other. Beyond such positive influence, collaborative writing in this setting can also mirror practices that most people will experience in professional life.