We work on a one-to-one basis on any writing project—from brainstorming to revision to final touches. We work on essays, lab reports, resumes, formal letters of all types, work for publication, etc.

We help anyone on campus—from freshman to seniors and from staff to faculty to administrators of OPSU.

We identify your most effective and less effective writing habits and help you revise and polish your strengths.

We focus on Writing Across the Curriculum to include math, science, history, art, agriculture, business, etc.

• Edit or change your words or ideas
• Type or write your work
• Take dropped off papers
• Determine or influence your grade (professors do!)

Plan to spend 30-60 minutes with your tutor. We cannot run over into another student’s or staff’s appointment time or take you early if we are working with someone when you come in. For that very reason, be on time for your appointment with your paper already drafted.

Bring your syllabus or writing assignment/guidelines. We can help you fulfill your writing requirements better if we know what your professor is expecting. Help us help you!

Students may have one thirty- or sixty-minute appointment per day.

Below are some helpful guidelines:

Thirty-minute appointments

1-5 page essays

Basic MLA or APA formatting (without essay review)

Resumes (May require longer if starting from beginning)

Lab reports

Brainstorming/ Prewriting

Sixty-minute appointments

5-10 page essays

Resumes (If needing to change more than a few lines)

Essays needing lots of assistance with style, formatting

All senior seminar papers

Personal Statements

Students referred to the OPSU Writing Center by their instructors for extra grammar, punctuation, and/ or composition assistance.

Group assignments

Schedule Your Appointment by using this link: https://opsuwritingcenter.mywconline.com/.

When scheduling your appointment, please inform us of what you are working on so we can help you determine how much time you will need.

Expectations

The Writing Center is a part of the English department at OPSU and is designed to assist students in becoming better readers and writers. Please read the following guidelines for seeking and receiving assistance in the OPSU Writing Center:

1. We work on a one-to-one basis on any writing project – from brainstorming to revision to final touches. We work on essays, lab reports, resumes, formal letters of all types, work for publication, etc.
2. We help anyone on campus—from freshman to seniors and from staff to faculty to administrators of OPSU.
3. We identify your strong and not-so-strong writing habits and help you perfect your strengths and improve your potential strengths.
4. We focus on Writing Across the Curriculum to include math, science, history, etc..
5. We encourage all students to make appointments in advance and well before the due date of their assignment. However, at times we do have same day appointments available. Remember, even if your instructor requires you be seen at the Writing Center, if we do not have appointment times available, unfortunately we cannot assist you. Further, we will not simply sign session notes to assert that you were here.
6. You may schedule one 30- or 60-minute session per day depending on the breadth of assistance needed.
7. You may request to work with a particular tutor. We will do our best to honor your request; however, you may have to be shifted to another tutor if scheduling constraints warrant it.
8. Although we primarily work on a one-to-one basis, we do offer group sessions if warranted. If you are interested in a group appointment, please let us know when scheduling.
9. Bring your syllabus or writing assignment/guidelines. We can help you fulfill your writing requirements better if we know what your professor is expecting. Help us help you.
10. You must come in prepared to work and with an open and receptive attitude. The tutors in the Writing Center will not do the work for you. We operate under the notion that over time, students will become better writers as they master skills within the writing process.
11. While we hope that through assistance, students’ writing will improve, the OPSU Writing Center cannot determine, influence or guarantee grades.
12. We support you in taking ownership of your own academic success, and will not write, type, proofread or edit your work for you. Therefore, come in prepared to work with an open and receptive attitude, and ask questions when you don’t understand something. Both tutor and student should be willing participants in their session.
13. The staff reserve the right to end sessions with a student if the student is being disruptive, disrespectful, or non-participatory in the session.
14. Students who are ten minutes late to their appointments forfeit their appointment time. Staff members will then take the next student waiting for assistance. Students who are late three times over the course of a semester may be required to forfeit their right to attend the OPSU Writing Center for the entirety of the next semester.
15. The staff of the OPSU Writing Center are not in the business of correcting students’ essays for them. At no point will any member of the Writing Center edit, proofread, or revise a paper for a student.