Class Visits

One of our consultants can visit your class and provide a 15-minute introduction to the Writing Center. We can visit via Zoom or in person. We’ll talk about what we do, different ways we can support writers, how to prepare (or not prepare) for a session, and how to make appointments. We are happy to visit student organization or administration office meetings as well.

When requesting a class visit, we’ll ask you to share three different dates, and we’ll do our best to accommodate your preferences.

Click here to complete a Class Visit Request

Writing Center – Syllabus Blurb

The Writing Center offers writers free, one-on-one assistance. We currently offer 45min, face-to-face or online sessions that writers can book from our website: www.tamuc.edu/writing-center

We welcome all writers, majors, and disciplines—undergraduate and graduate students alike (faculty and staff too!). Research shows that all workers benefit from sharing their work with a focused reader. The Writing Center staff is trained to support writers in any stage of the writing process (from the blank page to polishing sentences), and we work with writers to verbalize writing goals and to stay on track with larger writing projects. We work with any form of writing (academic and nonacademic). The writers with whom we work usually bring projects like important emails, weekly writing assignments, midterm and final essays, and theses and dissertations. Contact us with any questions here: writingcenter@tamuc.edu

Writing Groups (Faculty, Staff, or Graduate Students)

We hope to offer space or support for writing groups in the Spring Semester. In the meantime, we are offering clinics or workshops on research writing at different stages (reading, drafting, revising, and editing) and on time and task management (including organizing large writing projects (articles, dissertations, books), writing session best practices, the Pomodoro Technique, and many more).

If you have a TAMUC-based writing group (meaning most members are connected to TAMUC), and would like to bring the Writing Center in for a clinic or workshop, reach out to us here: writingcenter@tamuc.edu

Pedagogical Consultations

Schedule permitting, Dr. Kelin Loe, our faculty director, can meet one-on-one with instructors/faculty who would like support. For a consultation, email: writingcenter@tamuc.edu

Common topics include:

• Supporting advanced, underprepared, and multilingual writers (and often a combination of those populations)
• Reducing grading time/labor
• Incorporating peer response
• Developing writing assignments, activities, and rubrics
• All-encompassing in writing pedagogy and the practices of writing education