Services for Faculty

Assistance with integrating the Center into your courses (See our handouts: "How to Encourage," "What We Do," "The CFW Extra Credit Opportunity")
Class visits to explain our services
Brochures
Assistance with composing effective writing assignments
Assistance with teaching writing as a process
Assistance with assessing student responses to writing assignments

The Center for Writing is committed to assisting your students with their writing, reading, and critical thinking. We work collaboratively with your students through questioning and in-depth conversation so that they can make connections between class discussions, readings, and their own thinking. This results in writing that is more organized and clear, and writers who can approach their writing more thoughtfully.

We work one-on-one with students as they write, but we do not write their papers for them, nor do we proofread their work.

Most frequently, we work with students who care about their writing and their learning, and are doing well in your course. They are interested in trying out their ideas, in talking through a difficult concept or reading, or in having an immediate audience for their writing. Your students are not tutored in the Center for Writing, nor do they come only because they are desperate or failing their courses.

Your students will most likely want to talk to us about:

organizing their ideas
getting started
real revision
focusing on a main point
documenting their sources and effectively incorporating others' ideas into their writing and thinking
strengthening their writing at the sentence level

To help your students make the most of the Center for Writing:

Provide information about the Center for Writing to your students at the beginning of your course, in your syllabus, and in class. Mention us again as you assign writing.
Encourage all of your students to see a peer consultant.
Talk to the Director, Dr. Susan Callaway, about our mission and how we work.
Visit the Center yourself.
Include our Web site in your syllabus, and mention in particular our Resources for Writers page.
Request our brochures and bookmarks--however many you'd like.

If you are considering requiring your students to come to the Center for Writing, please call Dr. Susan Callaway first. Generally, we don't have the staff to accommodate full classes in a short period of time. In addition, some students may resent the requirement, and this makes for an unhappy conversation.

We prefer to have students choose to see us on their own--and at your encouragement, too! Please see our handout on the "CFW Extra Credit Opportunity" (follow the link at top of page).

We can assist you as you are writing assignments for your students and devising methods to assess student responses.

For more information, please contact Dr. Susan Callaway.

The Center for Writing
Dr. Susan J. Callaway, Director

361 John Roach Center
St. Paul Campus
(651) 962-5601 or writing@stthomas.edu
© 2007 University of St. Thomas

Last Updated December 2007