Located on the second floor of the library in suite 204, the Writing Center provides flexible support options, including online support, and provides live or written feedback on all forms of academic and creative writing. We meet students face to face or online and require appointments for all services. Students should bring their personal laptops so that we can share files to read and revise together.
The Writing Center is dedicated to providing academic support to the needs of student writers across the curriculum. In addition, any students who wish to enhance their skills, independent of specific course work, or have a friendly reader for their newest poem, essay or story, can find assistance in the center. Our Writing Center peer consultants help writers of all ability levels.
“The Writing Center helps students in a variety of ways, such as increasing their grammatical, analytical, and creative abilities. We also strengthen their communication skills and help them learn in a comfortable, peer-centered environment.”
Claire Mormando ’25 – Writing Center Peer Consultant
The Writing Center offers assistance with:
- learning prewriting strategies
- understanding the writing process
- developing a thesis
- strengthening the focus of a paper
- including supporting details
- creating effective introductions
- recognizing strengths and needs
- identifying and correcting grammatical errors.
“The Writing Center has helped me to adapt to the structure of American English. During the last few semesters, the Writing Center’s help has advanced my writing skills and allowed me to succeed in the courses I have taken.”
Sofia Giraldo Jimenez ’26
It provides students with:
- one-on-one tutoring
- small group workshops focusing on specific topics
- reference books and handbooks
- English as a second language assistance
- access to audio and video recording technology.
While the center cannot provide a proofreading/editing service or a guarantee of better grades, it will serve as a caring and concerned trial audience for what students have written.
Mission Statement
The Converse University Writing Center seeks to engage student writers in the exploratory and social processes of writing and communication. Through transformative collaboration that focuses on the student’s personal resources and strengths, the Writing Center empowers our student writers to develop their understanding and control of style, grammar, mechanics, design, formatting, and citation. We encourage them to think deeply about their writing in relation to academic standards, respond to the needs and expectations of their audiences, and use their creativity to pursue and achieve excellence.