The Writing Center at Illinois Wesleyan University welcomes all IWU students who would like help with their writing. We are open afternoons and evenings during the school year. We're conveniently located on the first floor of Buck Memorial Library.

    Our tutors are all students at Wesleyan, and come from a variety of majors. In many cases they've taken the same courses in which their clients are enrolled, and have tackled similar writing assignments. They've taken the time to complete a non-credit, semester-long course in tutoring.

    Our philosophy is simple: we help student writers help themselves by acting as sympathetic readers, by asking questions, by helping students evaluate their ideas, argument, content, and style, by teaching writers invention, argumentation, drafting, and copyediting strategies they can use on their own. We help students with all the stages of the writing process, from those first rough ideas through prewriting, collecting supporting material, drafting, and final editing and proofreading. We believe that good writing takes work and benefits from several revisions and re-inventions.

APPOINTMENTS:

Best: call x3810 or stop by Buck 102 during our regular hours (see below).  Requests made through voicemail or email won't be processed overnight or between Friday and Sunday afternoons.

Priority is given to appointments, but walk-ins are welcome.

Contact Us At:

Writing Center
Bloomington, IL 61702
(309) 556-3810
writcent@iwu.edu

Hours:
Sunday-Thursday 1:00-5:00 & 7:00-10:00pm
Friday 1:00-4:00pm
Saturday Closed

Writing Center Coordinator:
Dr. Joel Haefner
jhaefner@iwu.edu

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