The Campus Writing Center at CSU

Welcome to the main page for the campus writing center at Colorado State University. We welcome writers from inside and outside the campus community. Writing Center Brochure (pdf version)

Who Are We? The writing consultants at the CSU Writing Center are currently all undergraduate and graduate students from the English department. If you are interested in becoming a writing consultant, please contact us. Director: Dr. Lisa Langstraat Associate Director: Laura Thomas Assistant Director: Allison Mackin Consultants: Meet our Consultants Where Are We Located? Location: Willard O. Eddy Hall, Room 6 Email: writing@colostate.edu Telephone: 970-491-0222 When Are We Open? Spring 2008 Hours: * no appointment necessary * Monday-Thursday 10am-4pm Friday 10am-1pm (Eddy Hall, Room 6) Sunday-Thursday from 6pm-8pm (Morgan Library, EIL3)

Our Mission We believe that writing is not a solitary act and that writing becomes more effective when discussion/conversation surrounds it. Our work is guided by the following mission statement: The Colorado State University Writing Center is dedicated to providing advice and help in every stage of the writing process. Our goal is to engage the community in discussion about writing by providing onsite consultations, classroom presentations, and campus workshops and outreach. Beginning with the writers' needs and concerns, we use our training, knowledge, and experience to enable writers to discover their own expertise. By offering resources and strategies, we strive to build writers' beliefs in their own writing processes and abilities. Subsequently, writers walk away with the confidence to make effective writing choices in any writing situation. In these ways, we support the shared goal of writing centers to make better writers, not just better writing.

What Services Do We Offer to Writers?

The Writing Center offers a free, confidential service with no appointment necessary to all writers within the CSU and Fort Collins community. Each session typically lasts about a half an hour.

Although the writing consultants who work at the Writing Center are all students within the English department, it is important to mention that we work with ALL writers: first year students, graduate students, creative writers, writers from all disciplinary backgrounds, members of the local community, etc.

We can help you at any stage of your writing process:

• Starting: Understanding assignments, brainstorming, discussing and developing ideas
• Drafting: Finding a focus, choosing a purpose, targeting an audience, developing a thesis or an argument
• Revising: Improving your paper's organization, expanding ideas, improving clarity and cohesion
• Researching: Finding a topic and choosing search terms, conducting searches (on the Internet and the library catalogue), evaluating sources, integrating material into your essay, documentation styles and citations
• Polishing: We will not proofread or edit a paper for you, but we will help you learn how to find and correct errors in punctuation, usage, and grammar

We also offer two options for online feedback:

1. For questions about writing, please visit our Contact page.
2. For feedback on a draft, please use our Send a Draft service.

What Services Do We Offer to Instructors?

We welcome the opportunity to work with instructors from across the University. For more information, read about our support for instructors.