The Writing Center can help students from all academic levels and all majors, so we welcome you to encourage students to use this free resource. One of the best ways to inform students about our services is to set aside time in one of your classes for a staff member to present a 10-minute orientation about EIU's Writing Center. The staff member can give your students a brief introduction about the center, provide brochures and handouts, and explain how we can help them become stronger writers.
In addition, feel free to copy the two paragraphs below into your course policy or syllabus:
I encourage you to use EIU's Writing Center located at 3110 Coleman Hall. This free service provides one-to-one conferences with writing center consultants who can help you with brainstorming, organizing, developing support, documenting your papers, and working with sentence-level concerns. The writing center is open to help any student from any major at any stage of his or her writing process, and its system of one-to-one conferences demonstrates value and respect for individual writers, all of whom can benefit from feedback about their works in progress.
To schedule an appointment, you can drop by the center (3110 Coleman Hall) or you can call 581-5929. The writing center is open Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., and 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. On Friday hours of operation are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
When students come for a conference in the writing center, they should bring these items:
During a one-on-one conference, here is what students should expect during the session:
During a one-to-one conference, consultants will not do these:
You should recommend that students should come in early for an appointment for these reasons:
3110 Coleman Hall
Eastern Illinois University
600 Lincoln Avenue
Charleston, IL 61920
217-581-5929
writingcenter@eiu.edu