WRITING CENTER SERVICES

Writing Consultations Writing Center Consultants provide face-to-face collaborative writing guidance, assistance, and instruction. (Small group appointments are also available.) Your peer consultant will constructively discuss your writing in a way that will fine tune the writing in question, guide you in the composition process. and instruct you in techniques and skills that will improve your future writing projects. Unless it is specifically requested, your instructors will not be notified when students use Writing Center services.  

What to Bring to a Writing Center Consultation Bring everything related to the writing you want to discuss in your consultation: syllabus, writing assignment or prompt, notes, previous drafts, and drafts with instructor comments on them. If you are seeking help on getting started, bring the assignment and your consultant will help you develop techniques that you can use to generate ideas that will guide your writing and research. Expect to spend about an hour at the Writing Center even though an average consultation takes 30 - 35minutes.

Proofreading and the Writing Center Because we are committed to helping you develop ways to improve your own writing, the Writing Center does not offer proofreading services. We would be glad to teach you how to edit and proofread your own work, and we will explain grammatical issues that are important to you, but we will not proofread a draft for you.

Writing Center Clients are Writers of All Abilities The Writing Center is not only for bad writers. Writers at all levels of proficiency, at all academic levels, and from every discipline, come to the Writing Center to get thoughtful, intelligent, constructive comments on their papers. Discussing and revising papers is a normal part of the writing process and not simply something done by bad writers. Indeed, it is something rarely done by bad writers. Join in the success of Writing Center clients at OSU Mansfield.

Workshops and Handouts All students, faculty, and staff, can attend Writing Center workshops on documentation, Internet research, and other writing related topics. In addition, you can obtain handouts on almost any writing related topic at the Center.

Computer Classrooms The Writing Center includes three computer classrooms. When the classrooms are not occupied by regular class sessions, the computers may be used by any member of the university community. The Writing Center is a great place to work on writing assignments because you will be surrounded by other students working on their papers, and have easy access to Writing Center Consultants who will be able to answer your writing related questions.

Meet with a Writing Center Consultant The free face-to-face collaborative assistance of Writing Center Consultants can help you to produce your best writing and will equip you to write successfully throughout your future academic and professional career. Writing Center Consultants are trained in composition, rhetorical analysis, writing process research, and collaborative pedagogy. Whether you are just beginning to write, or are in the final stages of writing, Writing Center Consultants are available to assist you.

Walk in or make an appointment at the Writing Center As a member of the university community, Writing Center Services are available whenever the Center is open on a walk in basis at Ovalwood Hall, Rooms 230, 235, 239 and 250. Come to the Writing Center at your convenience and a Writing Center Consultant will gladly address your writing concerns on a “first come first serve” basis. If you prefer, you can schedule an appointment with a member of the Writing Center staff by contacting: Michael Sasso Writing Center Director (419) 755-4371 or by email at writingcenter@osu.edu.