Plangere Writing Center
Murray Hall, Room 304
510 George Street
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
(9am-9pm Monday through Thursday, 9am-4:30pm on Friday)
The Writing Center provides free tutoring for full time Rutgers University students enrolled in Writing Program and other writing intensive classes. Tutoring sessions are scheduled for one eighty-minute class period per week for at least five weeks, and
are available free of charge to all full time Rutgers University students. Students are tutored in the full range of expository writing, from basic composition to the advanced research, business, and scientific writing courses. The Writing Center offers morning, afternoon, and evening sessions to ensure access for a variety of students. During each tutoring session, students engage in a series of tasks related to their latest course assignment. While tutors shape these tasks and advise students in the midst of them, it is the students who read, write, and revise. Because tutoring happens at a regularly-scheduled time and place over the course of many weeks, tutor and student reinforce new writing strategies while they navigate the challenges of college-level composition. This process of engagement is called minimalist tutoring. Minimalist tutoring strengthens reading and writing skills by asking students to practice under the supervision of a more experienced writer, who acts as a coach rather than an editor. Using this philosophy, tutoring provides better habits of writing to take into other classrooms and the larger world.
