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Writing Center

In the business of reading your papers before your professors do

Writing Center LogoThe Writing Center is the only service unit on campus specifically designed to promote your development and success as a college writer. The consultant team is available to assist you both in person and online with writing projects for any course and any level of instruction.

 

You are invited to utilize Writing Center services at a variety of stages in your writing processes:

 

  • understanding assignment directions
  • brainstorming ideas
  • creating "maps" or outlines
  • checking to see that your project specifically meets the directions specified by your instructor
  • exploring practical routes for revision and development
  • adhering to format and style guides (e.g., APA, APSA, CBE, and MLA)

While tutors avoid "fixing" your writing, they do help you become conscious of, and proactive about, particular error patterns that emerge in your written work. Additionally, the Writing Center maintains a library of reference texts and take-home handouts.

 

Hours and locations

The Writing Center opens for business in the second week of the term and closes on Wednesday during exam week. Additionally, the Writing Center is closed during university breaks and holidays. Most Writing Center services are offered at our main location in APS 301, where you can make appointments, meet with a tutor, utilize our writer's reference library, obtain handouts on various writing issues, and write in our computer lab. To make an appointment, visit our online appointment book. To cancel an appointment, see tutoring services.

 

WC make an appointment buttonWriting Center: APS 301 Opens Monday, 7 March

Monday-Thursday, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.

Friday, 9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.

 

Night Hours: HL 116 Opens Tuesday, 8 March

Tuesday-Thursday, 7:00-10:00 p.m.

walk-in sessions only: first come, first serve

 

Online tutoring (real-time, live-chat sessions)
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by appointment only

 

Mission

The Writing Center maximizes the individual and professional development of student-writers by offering personalized learning opportunities to advance writing self efficacy:

 

  • we highlight personal writing strengths and aid in demystifying personal writing challenges
  • we promote student success in both school-sponsored and self-sponsored writing-related endeavors
  • we offer routes for navigating the range of college-level writing assignments that exist
  Writing Center Western Oregon University
345 N. Monmouth Ave.
Monmouth, OR 97361
503-838-8286
or e-mail writingcenter@wou.edu
Last Updated: Monday, 31 March, 2008 09:59 AM

 
Located in the heart of Oregon’s lush Willamette Valley, Western Oregon University is the oldest institution in the Oregon University system with an award-winning campus that blends welcoming traditional features with multimedia classrooms, wireless web access and a state-of-the-art library. WOU is home to the nationally-renowned Teaching Research Institute, the Regional Resource Center on Deafness and the Rainbow Dance Theatre with approximately two-thirds of its students in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the rest in the College of Education.