Methodist University Academics - The Writing Center

The Writing Center

The Writing Center is a specialized, cross-disciplinary facility dedicated to individual instruction in writing. It is open to all members of the Methodist University community-students, faculty, and staff. Trained professional writing consultants with a minimum of a bachelor's degree are available to assist writers with all aspects of writing, from planning through revision and final editing.

The Center is located in the Trustees' Building, room 101, and is open 55 hours per week. Consultations are by appointment, and all appointments are made via our online scheduling system. See How to Schedule an Appointment for more information.

Do You Want to Know...

how to start a paper?
how to generate ideas?
how to make your paper long enough?
how to organize your ideas?
how to write an introduction?
how to write a conclusion?
how to document your paper?
how to identify and correct grammatical errors in your paper?
how to make your paper "flow"?
how to write in a form required by your instructor?
how to write a summary?
what an impartial reader thinks about your paper?
how to revise/edit your paper?

What We Offer

Professional writing consultants who can help you with all aspects of writing
Computers connected to the C.A.C. Lab network
Resource material on grammar, rhetoric, research, and documentation
A positive atmosphere in which to work on any writing assignment
A laptop station with Internet access
A printer (twenty-page maximum)

What to Bring with You

A copy of your instructor's assignment, outline, draft, and all prewriting
Textbooks or other relevant materials

What We Do

Provide individual feedback on any writing project
Help identify strengths and weaknesses in your writing
Help writers learn how to improve their writing

What We Don't Do

Write or revise papers for you
Grade papers
Guarantee grades

How to Schedule an Appointment

To make an appointment, create a profile, and sign up online, click here, and we’ll take you to our appointment scheduler, located at:

http://rich37.com/methodist

Or, you come to the Writing Center, and we will help you. Directions for creating a profile, scheduling, and managing appointments are available by clicking here.

Consultations begin on the hour and last 45 minutes. If you cannot keep an appointment, you must cancel beforehand—cancellations can be made online: http://rich37.com/methodist or by phone: (910) 630-7264 or (910) 630-7138.

Failure to Cancel an Appointment May Result in the
Loss of Writing Center Privileges

Hours of Operation - Summer 2009

We are closed for the summer. Fall hours begin on 17 August 2009.

Hours of Operation - Fall & Spring Semesters

Monday-Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

How to Find Us

Trustees Building, Room 101

Phone: (910) 630-7264 or (910) 630-7138

Email:

Appointment Scheduler: http://rich37.com/methodist

Contact the Director: If you need to contact the Writing Center Director, Professor R. Greene, you can contact her: T-216, (910) 630-7110,

For our MJA and MBA Graduate Students

We offer graduate students a variety of Writing Center services. For local students, we recommend in-person consultations, scheduled online: http://rich37.com/methodist and for online students, e-consultations and phone consultations. If you would like your work reviewed by our MJA specialist, please only make your appointments with Baylor Hicks. Below are our protocols for these appointments:

PROTOCOLS FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS’ ONLINE USE OF WRITING CENTER

If you wish to have a consultation before you write your paper:

Schedule an appointment - Schedule at least one appointment at the Writing Center.
Submit anything you have written - If you have prepared an outline of your paper or a list of ideas and information, email it to the Writing Center in advance of your appointment.
Provide your assignment - If possible, drop off or email a copy of your writing assignment to the Writing Center before your appointment. If your professor has already provided the writing assignment to the Center, just email to remind us that we have it on file.
Phone the Center - Telephone the Writing Center at the beginning of your appointment. Be prepared to spend forty-five minutes on the phone with the consultant discussing your ideas.

If you wish to have a consultation after you have drafted or partially drafted your paper:

Schedule two appointments -Make at least two appointments with the same consultant.
Submit what you have written - Submit your paper or partial draft by email to the Writing Center in advance of your first appointment.
Provide your assignment - If possible, drop off or email a copy of your writing assignment to the Writing Center before your first appointment. If your professor has already provided the writing assignment to the Center, just email to remind us that we have it on file.
Phone the Center - Telephone the Writing Center at the beginning of your second appointment. Be prepared to spend forty-five minutes with the consultant discussing your paper. (The consultant will use your first appointment to review the draft and prepare for your call.)

To schedule or cancel an appointment:
http://rich37.com/methodist

To email a document:

To telephone for your consultation:
(910) 630-7264 or (910) 630-7138

Failure to Cancel an Appointment May Result in the
Loss of Writing Center Privileges

Helpful Links to Writing-Related Sites:

The Dirty Dozen

The Dirty Dozen Workshops Schedule (Fall 2009)

Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL)

Citation Machine

Assignment Calculator

University of Wisconsin - Madison Writer’s Handbook

George Mason University Online Writing Workshops