Syracuse University Writing Center

Although the Writing Center won't open for the fall until August 24th, please welcome this semester's consulting staff.

All Writing Center services will be offered online this fall. The Writing Center will offer synchronous and asynchronous online appointments from August 24th through December 6th. The Center will not offer face-to-face appointments in fall 2020. The Center's schedules will be live and available to students the week of August 17th. ... You can find additional information on the Center's schedule page.

The Writing Center opens for the summer on May 18th, but our schedule is available now. Book your appointment today.

The Writing Center is now officially closed for the spring semester. The Center will reopen for Summer Session I on Monday May 18th.

SU students, faculty, & staff, please share widely: The Writing Center remains open through the spring semester, but all services have moved entirely online. Go to our schedule for to make appointments. Email bmerwin[at]syr[dot]edu with any questions.

All Writing Center Services Moving Online for the rest of the semester. Due to the suspension of on-campus classes, the Writing Center has gone fully online You can still log into the schedule, select the Face-to-Face (Spring 2020) schedule, and reserve an appointment. Instead of meeting a consultant in the Writing Center, however, you will now be receiving electronic feedback from consultants.... When booking an appointment on the face-to-face schedule, you will be prompted to upload a text for your consultant to review. Please only upload Microsoft Word documents when creating your appointment; submitting other document types may result in the appointment being cancelled. You can only upload a single text to a given appointment; failing to properly upload your draft via WCOnline or uploading multiple texts to a single appointment will result in your appointment being cancelled. Please also note that while the Writing Center is operating exclusively in an online format, appointments must be made at least 48 hours in advance; this ensures that consultants will have time to respond to your submission. You will receive feedback from a consultant by the date and time on which you've reserved an appointment. Please contact Ben Erwin at bmerwin[@]syr[dot]edu with any questions about the Writing Center policies or procedures.

"Syracuse University will not resume residential instruction this semester."

All Writing Center Services Moving Online While On-Campus Classes Are Suspended: Due to the suspension of on-campus classes, the Writing Center has gone fully online until further notice. Until on-campus classes resume, all Writing Center appointments will take place digitally. The Instant Messsge and eWC services have not changes, as those mode of assistance have always existed exclusively online, but the face-to-face schedule now includes additional features so that consult...ants can provide asynchronous online feedback. You can still log into the schedule, select the Face-to-Face (Spring 2020) schedule, and reserve an appointment. Instead of meeting a consultant in the Writing Center, however, you will now be receiving electronic feedback from consultants. When booking an appointment on the face-to-face schedule, you will be prompted to upload a text for your consultant to review. Please only upload Microsoft Word documents when creating your appointment; submitting other document types may result in the appointment being cancelled. You can only upload a single text to a given appointment; failing to properly upload your draft via WCOnline or uploading multiple texts to a single appointment will result in your appointment being cancelled. Please also note that while the Writing Center is operating exclusively in an online format, appointments must be made at least 48 hours in advance; this ensures that consultants will have time to respond to your submission. You will receive feedback from a consultant by the date and time on which you've reserved an appointment. Please contact Ben Erwin at bmerwin[@]syr.edu with any questions about the Writing Center policies or procedures.

Attention students, faculty, and staff: We will also have updates regarding the Writing Center and its services beyond Friday March 13th in the coming days.

It is with an especially heavy heart that I want to note the passing of longtime Writing Department faculty member, and frequent Writing Center consultant, Molly Voorheis. My heart goes out to her family and her many friends. As so many across SU already know, Molly was always kind in her approach to others, generous with her knowledge, and incredibly giving to all of those around her. She was also greatly admired by colleagues and extremely well liked by students in her cla...sses and in the Writing Center. When I was hired in 2011, she was one of the first people to introduce herself to me, and she was quick to say, Those of us from the Midwest who find ourselves in CNY need to look out for one another. Molly was a fount of disciplinary and institutional knowledge, and she was frequently someone I turned to for insight and advice about teaching, course design, and tutoring; her empathy, generosity, and willingness to always help others came to define how I saw her. You could see those attributes every time she mentored new peer consultants in the WC, every time she shared her knowledge with her colleagues, and in all of her interactions with students. It was those attributes I admired most and always try to exemplify. She was especially adroit at being brutally honest but kind, and tough but supportive. She also had a special gift for challenging students while encouraging them; if I knew a student needed to be pushed *and* nurtured, I would invariably send them to her. She was a consummate teacher who always led by example. Early in my time at SU, I was once told, If you don’t know what to do, ask Molly. She’ll know. I didn’t fully understand this until I started giving the same advice to others. Molly took on many roles in our department, and in the Center, and I came to rely on her a great deal. If her name was on the staff list come August or January, I knew that the semester would be just a little easier. And more fun. I will miss her acerbic wit and wry sense of humor. I will miss her as a colleague I knew I could always trust and rely on. I will miss her love of teaching and her seemingly innate ability to make those around her better. I will miss her as an immensely positive presence on this campus. But mostly I just miss my friend.

The Writing Center will also be closed today. If you had an appointment scheduled, you will receive a message from the Center's administrator about receiving feedback electronically today.

All of the Center's spring schedules are now live and available to students.

The Writing Center will open for the semester on January 21st. The Center's schedules will be available by the end of the first week of classes.