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The Writing Center

Welcome to the CSUSB Writing Centers!

The CSUSB Writing Centers are able to work with you both in person and online. Our writing consultants will work with students, faculty, and staff on any writing project at any stage of the writing process. You can see our schedule of availability and sign up for an appointment by clicking the blue "appointments" button or following this link to our schedule: https://csusb.mywconline.com/

Contact us!

You can connect with us via email, phone, in person, or via Zoom. Chat with one of our awesome receptionists using the contact info below! They're available during our normal business hours.
When you first enter the Zoom meeting, you'll land in the waiting room, but one of our receptionists should be with you shortly (during business hours).

In Person:  Watson College of Education, CE 310

Receptionist Zoom Meeting ID:  336-834-754

Receptionist Zoom Meeting Link:  https://csusb.zoom.us/j/336834754

Phone: (909) 537-5232

Tutoring & Reception Hours for Fall 2024: 

  • Monday - Thursday -- 8:30 am to 8:00 pm
  • Friday -- 8:30 am to 5:00 pm
  • Saturday (online) 10:00 am to 3:00 pm
  • Sunday -- closed

Winter 2024/25

We will have limited tutoring hours available the week after fall finals, and then we will be closed for tutoring between December 23 and January 3. We will then have some limited tutoring hours available January 6-8 and January 13-15 before reopening for the spring term the week of January 20. We'll be building our winter schedule soon, so check out our appointment scheduling site for details: csusb.mywconline.com.

Alternate means of contact:

You can always email us at writingcenter@csusb.edu. You can also use the "Send Message to Center" feature within our appointment scheduling app. Click the appointments button at right (blue) to navigate to the web app. After logging in, at the top left of the main schedule screen, hover/click on your name to bring up menu options and select "Send Message to Center".

We make updates to this site as needed. For more information about preparing for and scheduling an online appointment, navigate to our online tutoring info at csusb.edu/writing-center/students/online-tutoring and thank you for your patience!

The CSUSB Writing Centers conduct one-to-one student writing conferences and facilitate workshops with faculty members in a variety of campus classrooms. Students come to work on writing projects for a wide variety of courses across the university. Our writing consultants are graduate and undergraduate students from a variety of disciplines.

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.

In all situations, Writing Center staff write with writers, never for them. They work to preserve the integrity of writers' ideas and plans, even as they challenge writers to interrogate and contextualize both their own and others ideas, language, and sources.

You can visit us in CE 310, peruse our website, connect with us via Zoom, or email us at WritingCenter@csusb.edu for more information.