Writing Associates Program

The Writing Center provides free drop-in writing consultation for students working on academic assignments for any class and on any topic. The center is staffed by student Writing Associates and welcomes all writers to a private one-on-one writing session throughout the semester.

Students can visit the Writing Center for a session at any stage of their writing process. Writing Associates can assist students early in their writing process by helping to clarify prompts and assignments, brainstorm ideas and topics, or develop research strategies. Writing Associates can also help students in the drafting and revising stage of their assignment by providing advice on paragraph organization, idea and argument coherence, among many other issues. Students at the end of the writing process can also bring in their papers for help in sentence-level corrections and editing for flow and clarity.

The Writing Center will remain open through the last day of spring semester reading period.  The Writing Center is closed during fall break, spring break, Thanksgiving break, exam periods, winter term, and summer.

Hours

• 1–5 p.m., Monday through Friday
• 7–10 p.m., Sunday through Thursday
• 3–5 p.m., Sunday

Spring 2018 Schedule

	1–2 p.m.	2–3 p.m.	3–4 p.m.	4–5 p.m.	7–8 p.m.	8–9 p.m.	9–10 p.m.
Sunday	Closed	Closed	Charlie  Delaney Vanessa	Charlie  Delaney Vanessa	Tavi AJ Giselle Dylan	Tavi AJ Giselle Dylan	Tavi AJ Giselle
Monday	Delaney Grace Min Hye	Delaney Grace	Delaney Elijah Sihan (Simon)	Elijah Sihan (Simon)	Sean Janine Julia	Sean Janine Julia	Sarah Janine Julia Tavi
Tuesday	Vanessa Ellen	Vanessa Ellen	Charlie Thobeka	Charlie Thobeka	Will Dylan Sean Elijah	Will Dylan Sean Elijah	Will Dylan Sean
Wednesday	Lucas Miche Min Hye	Lucas Miche Min Hye	Miche Giselle	Giselle Tavi	Janine Giulia Will Sarah	Janine Giulia Will Sarah	Janine Will Sarah
Thursday	Rehaan AJ	Rehaan AJ	Charlie Thobeka	Charlie Thobeka	Grace Ellen Julia	Grace Ellen Julia Giulia	Giulia Ellen Julia
Friday	Vanessa Miche Min Hye	Miche  Sihan (Simon)	Elijah Sihan (Simon)	Elijah Sihan (Simon)	Closed	Closed	Closed

 The Writing Center is a collaborative space Sunday through Thursday night. Quantitative Skills (QS) tutors and a Media Center tutor will be available for drop-in consultation in the Writing Center these nights from 7–10 p.m.

In addition to holding hours in the main library, Writing Associates staff open drop-in hours each week at the Multicultural Resource Center and the International Student Resource Center.

MRC

Monday

• 10 a.m. to noon (Thobeka Mnisi)
• 1–2 p.m. (Jad Kaiss)
• 3:30–5:00 p.m. (Victoria Albacete)

Tuesday

1–3 p.m. (Jad Kaiss)

Wednesday

1–3 p.m. (Brian)

Thursday

1–3 p.m. (Jad Kaiss)

Friday

1–2 p.m. (Jad Kaiss)

ISRC

• 7–10 p.m., Sunday through Tuesday

The Speaking Center is a pilot program launched in 2016 with the goal to support students in their speaking endeavors and instill a sense of confidence in their ability to communicate. We want students to become more conscious and conscientious speakers, and we seek to accomplish this through sparking a critical dialogue on campus that further develops student understanding of audience, purpose, and context, as it applies to both the academic and professional conversation.

To that end, we offer one-on-one Speaking Center sessions, where you are able to work with a trained peer Speaking Associate on all parts of the presentation process.

In addition, we offer a range of workshops throughout the year on speaking in both academic and professional settings, such as conference presentations or job interviews. If you are interested in this, contact Cortney Smith, csmith5@oberlin.edu for more details.

We will open for the semester starting in the second module after spring break.

Hours

7–9 p.m.; Tuesday, Thursday, and Sunday

Location

Writing Center Space off the Academic Commons next to the CIT office.