Writing Center - ASUA

The CSUSB Writing Centers conduct one-to-one student writing conferences and facilitate workshops with faculty members in a variety of campus classrooms. Students work with us on academic writing projects from a wide variety of courses across the university. We work with students both individually on their own work and in small groups on group writing projects. Students also work with us on personal writing projects including resumes, personal statements, graduate school applications, scholarship essays, creative writing, etc. Writing consultants are graduate and undergraduate students from disciplines across the campus.

Writing consultants work with writers at all stages of the composing process, helping to interpret assignments, discover topics, expand ideas, clarify organization, incorporate counter-arguments, cite references, edit, and proofread. Several consultants work specifically with multilingual writers to help them negotiate linguistic and cultural differences in written composition; these consultants also conduct informal English conversation groups for multilingual speakers. Writing Center staff work with faculty members who are designing and evaluating writing components of their courses, in addition to conducting writing workshops in those faculty members' classrooms, and reading and responding to manuscripts in preparation.