The MSU Writing Center
Supporting Writers. Sharing Stories. Connecting Communities.
The MSU Writing Center is a free service where MSU students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members can work collaboratively with trained and paid undergraduate and graduate writing consultants. Consultants are comfortable working with personal, academic, and professional writing projects in a range of languages and at any phase in the writing process. Schedule an in-person or online appointment at one of our many locations through WCOnline. For more information about our services and how we enact our values of transformation, equity, curiosity, collaboration, and care, please visit our website or use our live chat.
Our Aspirations
At the Writing Center, we will co-create just futures with our communities through transformative writing advocacy.
The Writing Center operates with a broad understanding of collaboration in the MSU community. Peer-to-peer consultations with students, faculty, and the community allow us to expand ideas of literacy and composing beyond traditional models and geographic boundaries.
With this in mind, the Writing Center is committed to the following:
- Working with and developing multiple literacies
- Encouraging and facilitating collaboration
- Supporting interdisciplinary methods of thinking, writing, and researching
- Promoting diverse understandings of writing and the disciplines in which they are situated
- Utilizing emerging and new technologies in pedagogically responsible ways
- Challenging ourselves and others to be inclusive of varying accessibility and languaging needs
Our Intentions
The Writing Center works collaboratively to foster cultures of writing and research across the university and within local and global communities. We engage with interdisciplinary and expansive views of literacy, community, and pedagogy to enact our values of transformation, equity, curiosity, collaboration, and care.
Our work has four primary audience:
We support students by offering one-on-one peer writing consultations, writing workshops, graduate and creative writing groups, and student employment opportunities.
We support faculty, staff, and campus partnerships by offering writing across the curriculum programming, grant writing support, professional development resources, writing groups, and syllabus development.
We work with local communities through the Community Writing Center in collaboration with the East Lansing Public Library and with other community partners, and we work with regional and global communities through ongoing partnerships.