OSU Writing Center
OSU Writing Center
What We Do and Whom We Serve
We help you understand and practice many strategies effective writers use—from brainstorming
to drafting to editing techniques.
The Oklahoma State Writing Center is here to serve the OSU community. We aim to develop
effective communications regardless of skill level and background.
Writers
Here at the Writing Center at Oklahoma State University, we value and serve all writers
at OSU. Our belief is that every writer, no matter the stage of their career or the
stage of their writing, can benefit from having a conversation about writing with
our tutors. The writers who make up our center are our own tutors, who are also OSU
students, as well as the rest of the OSU population, such as faculty and staff members.
Consultations
The Writing Center is a space of collaboration and embraces a relational-based pedagogy
that focuses on the importance of peer tutoring. In the Writing Center, our tutors
are also writers and readers you can trust to try out ideas on, to ask questions you’re
grappling with, or to be a second pair of eyes to help refine your writing through
discussions about clarity, syntax, and style.
Our Tutors
are uniquely qualified to help.
The Oklahoma State University Writing Center is uniquely qualified to discuss writing
at all stages and with all writers because we employ tutors from a variety of backgrounds.
Our writing staff is comprised of English graduate students, Writing Across the Curriculum
graduate students (WAC), and undergraduate students. Many of our graduate students
are experienced instructors, researchers, leaders, and organizers.
Community Engagement
The Oklahoma State University Writing Center collaborates with a variety of groups
within the Stillwater community to bring free, educational programs to the public.
Tutors have the opportunity to participate in community engagement programs, working
with all age ranges and disciplines of writing. The program’s aims are to improve
others’ literacy and professional development skills through writing center pedagogy.
We encourage mutual respect and active listening for co-learning outcomes. Community
engagement events are tailored to special interests or needs within the community,
and bring value to the learning experience. We believe community engagement is meaningful
and important work to create rewarding experiences for the volunteers and program
participants through partnerships with schools, museums, libraries, and other community
services and programs in Oklahoma.
About Us
Meet Our Staff
Contact the Writing Center (WC) when you:
- Don’t receive asynchronous feedback after 48 hours.
- Have trouble understanding asynchronous feedback.
- Miss your session.
- Are unable to log in to the WC website for an online session.
- Cannot access asynchronous feedback.
- Need to book a session.
- Need extra assistance with a paper.
Land Grant Mission
Oklahoma State University is a land-grant university. Land-grant universities were
started from the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890, where federal land was given to build
universities in more rural areas in order to make education more accessible, and included
more practical majors such as agriculture. The three primary values of land-grant
institutions are research, instruction, and outreach/extension. At the Oklahoma State
University Writing Center, we embrace all three components of the land-grant mission.
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