Student Writing Center
About
Located in Alden Library 226, the Student Writing Center provides free scheduled and walk-in face-to-face appointments.
Assistance is available at any stage of the writing process, from understanding the assignment to looking at the revised draft.
You can get help with developing the thesis or main idea, organizing or developing the ideas, the bibliography, grammatical issues or any other writing concerns.
Fall hours
Monday-Friday 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.
All students will meet their tutor in Alden 226.
Schedule an Appointment
Faculty Resources
If you are planning to incorporate any kind of writing task, small or large, in your course for Fall 2019 or Spring 2020, please consider including the following information in your syllabus:
The Student Writing Center (SWC), provides free writing assistance through scheduled face-to-face appointments and walk-ins (no appointment necessary). Assistance is available for any stage of the writing process, from talking about ideas and where to go with them, organizing and/or developing those ideas, helping to improve or extend a thesis, expanding and organizing the paper based on the thesis, helping with citations, grammatical issues, or any other writing concern. Register and schedule an appointment at: https://tutoring.aac.ohio.edu.
Additional Resources and there you will find out the walk-in hours for the current semester.
- Graduate Writing & Research Center [OHIO]
- English Language Improvement Program at Ohio University
- PurdueOWL [PURDUE]
Employment
The SWC is hiring undergraduate writing tutors.
If you are interested in a tutoring position:
- Complete the AAC Tutor Application
- Submit two OHIO Faculty Reference Forms
- Email a resume, and a 10-15 page writing sample (which can be a combination of essays) to swc@ohio.edu.
- Transfer students will need to email a copy of your DARS (PDF copy only) to swc@ohio.edu.
If you are an instructor and would like to recommend a student as a possible writing tutor, please email us applicable information.
Contact
For general questions or help making an appointment, email the Student Writing Center at SWC@ohio.edu, call 740-593-2646, or visit the SWC in 226 Alden Library.