The IWU Writing Center

04/19/2020

We've added hours for finals week to our regular Writing Center 2020 Schedule! We'll be open through Monday, April 27. Also, we will reopen for May Term starting Wednesday, May 6.

03/25/2020

While we have postponed all of our workshops, we are working to record them and share them with interested writers. If you're interested in getting a recorded workshop on any of the following, please email our director, Anna Scanlon, at [email protected].

1- PreHealth Personal Statements
2- Writing to Create, not for the Grade
3- Writing for the GRE

03/14/2020

The Illinois Wesleyan Writing Center is postponing all workshops and in person tutoring based on the recommendations and mandates put in place by the university and the government.

We WILL be offering online tutoring. The email sent to faculty and staff is as follows:

"Hi Colleagues!

Just a quick update to let y’all know the Writing Center at Illinois Wesleyan will be open online when we go remote the week of the 23rd.

We will continue to offer online tutoring through our scheduling platform WCOnline. I’ve [included photos of] a document that explains how to go about setting up and navigating an appointment. We will notconduct in person or asynchronous (meaning the student emails the paper and we edit it) appointments.

Please bear with me as I get the tutors prepped and ready; the website where they schedule appointments (WCOnline) will be up-to-date with tutor availability by next Wednesday (3/18). Also, in case any ask you, I will be consulting students with existing appointments so those students receive first priority.

Two additional things to know about our online tutoring: (1) the student receiving assistance MUST turn on their we**am so as to avoid any intellectual property/ plagiarism concerns (the reason we avoid asynchronous as well). (2) We do offer online tutoring for groups!

If you or your students have any questions as we navigate these changes, please let me know!

Thanks; best wishes that y’all stay well."

02/29/2020

Just in case you're not following us on Twitter or Instagram (), here are the authors and texts we recommended this month for .

02/29/2020

Our first writers' group is coming up THIS TUESDAY at 5 p.m. in the writing center (Ames 105b). Come write in with folks who also have a vested interest in creative writing while an experienced tutor is present to answer questions, look at drafts, and join in with their own writing, too!

02/24/2020

Tonight is the first of our three-part series on personal statements for PreHealth majors! Tomorrow we'll host an encore presentation at the same time, in the same place!

02/21/2020

All of the writing workshops hosted by the Writing Center as of Spring 2020: Processing the Writing Process, Douglass Day Transcribe-a-Thon, APA v.s. MLA: The Ultimate Showdown, Maybe Medicine? Prehealth Personal Statements, Writing to Create, not for the Grade, and of course our creative writing groups!

02/21/2020

Our first PreHealth Personal Statements workshop will be held this Monday with an encore presentation this Tuesday from 7-8 p.m. LOCATION HAS CHANGED TO Ames Library 129 (Previously Ames Library 105b.)

02/18/2020

Did you know the writing center is starting writer's groups? Well now you do! Here are the Argus ads for our first two (more information will be on our webpage tomorrow!):

02/18/2020

Reminder: this Wednesday :)

Our APA v.s. MLA event is THIS upcoming Wednesday from 6-7 p.m. in the Writing Center (Ames 105b). Come one, come all!

02/15/2020

Our APA v.s. MLA event is THIS upcoming Wednesday from 6-7 p.m. in the Writing Center (Ames 105b). Come one, come all!