The Writing Center has two locations: Summerville Campus, Allgood Hall, Room N204 & Health Sciences Campus, Greenblatt Library, Room 2101.
Writing Center hours vary by semester. Please see our homepage and/or our schedule for the latest updates to availability.
Yes! We offer the same services that we offer undergraduate students to graduate students and faculty. In addition, we offer specialized services for graduate students on our Graduate Students page, as well as additional support for faculty on our Faculty and Staff Resources page.
You must be present and engaged for the duration of your consultation. Rather than being an editing service, we help you develop the editing skills you need during your appointment. We are here to guide you along the process of becoming a better writer.
Yes! No matter the subject, good writing should be clear, concise, organized, cohesive, indicative of critical thinking skills, able to support your claim, formatted correctly, and grammatically correct. The Writing Center can help with all of these things.
The Writing Center supports writers at all levels of their undergraduate and graduate careers. We actually see more writers working on advanced projects for upper-division courses than we do students working on first-year writing and lower-division coursework. Our goal is to support all writers, whether they are brand new freshmen, graduating seniors, or even graduate students or faculty. If it has to do with writing, oral presentations, or multimodal composing, bring it!
We work with writers collaboratively during 45-minute consultations that can take place in-person or online. During consultations, consultants begin by asking writers about their assignment prompt/rubric as well as their goals for the session. Based on this initial conversation, the consultant and writer will begin to work on the text at hand. Consultants are trained to take into account concepts like audience, genre, and discipline when they work with writers; they are also trained to help writers focus on the things that matter most. For instance, while missing commas may be an issue, it may not be as serious as missing a thesis in an argument paper; while mistaking colons for semicolons is a problem, it may not be as substantial as a literature review that does not synthesize sources. Consultants are trained to help writers identify and prioritize the most pressing concerns for their work. As bigger-picture concerns are addressed, the consultant and writer can move on to more minor issues. This process can take several consultations, as a typical appointment will only cover 1-3 concerns.
Before making your first appointment, sign up for an account with us by clicking the "Register for an Account" link on our scheduler. You must use your augusta.edu e-mail account to register successfully. After registering, log into the schedule and select the time that you would like to schedule. In-person, live online chat, and written feedback online appointments can all be scheduled on the schedule. If all slots are full, graduate students and faculty only may also submit written feedback online appointments using our WuFoo form on our Graduate Student Services page.
Yes! Undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, and staff can schedule live chat
and written feedback online appointments on our schedule. Live online chat appointments are real-time video appointments. Written feedback
appointments do not include a live meeting; instead, the writer includes their prompt
and assignment on the appointment form and receives written feedback at the end of
the scheduled appointment time.
When selecting your preferred date/time for the appointment within our scheduler,
select “Live Online Chat” or “Written Feedback Online” on the appointment form.
If you choose “Live Online Chat,” when it is time for your online appointment, return
to our schedule and log in. Click on the time slot you selected earlier. In the “Meet Online?” box,
click the link that says “Start or Join Online Consultation.” This will open a screen
with a large area to the left filled with instructions; you can highlight and delete
all of this text and then copy and paste the writing you would like help with onto
the screen. On the right, you can chat with the consultant.
If you choose “Written Feedback Online,” attach your prompt and assignment to the
appointment form. You will receive an email when your feedback is ready. A file with
written feedback will be attached to this email. You can also access this feedback
file directly on your appointment form at the bottom (it will be labeled “Client Report
Form File”). Written feedback appointments use Word comment bubbles and an overview
feedback form to provide written commentary on your work.
If all slots are taken on the schedule, graduate students only can also submit for
written online feedback by completing the submission form on our Graduate Student Services page.
Appointments are limited to one 1-hour session per day (five per week). We limit the amount of appointments you can make because you need time to work with your paper. Also, we can cover a lot in 1-hour and don’t want you to get overwhelmed!
Students can make appointments at any point in the semester up until the end of that term.
Cancel your appointment at least one hour before your scheduled appointment time to avoid a no-show penalty.
After three no-show appointments, your account will be disabled. This means that you will no longer be able to make appointments online. Accounts will be re-enabled at the beginning of each academic year.
Augusta University students and faculty! We staff undergraduate peer consultants, graduate assistants, and English faculty. Each of our peer consultants has been highly trained and has a minimum of an A or B in ENGL 1101, 1102, & 3830 (Writing Center Theory and Practice). Each consultant also has a biography on Meet Our Staff page.
The Augusta University Writing Center is funded by the Department of English and World Languages and the Katherine Reese Pamplin College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. The director of the center is an English faculty member. The current director is Dr. Candis Bond (cbond@augusta.edu; 706-667-4722). Although funded and staffed through these units, the center is a campus-wide resource available to all students, faculty, and staff of the university.
We offer several resources beyond individual consultations, including writing and communication handouts, in-class writing workshops, informational class visits, writing groups, and community writing events.
Students who work in the center take ENGL 3830: Writing Center Theory and Practice as a prerequisite. This course teaches them how writers think and develop, as well as strategies for teaching writing to diverse students. To learn more or apply, visit our Become a Consultant page.
