Welcome to the Writing Center @ MSU!
The Writing Center @ MSU is open for appointments. We look forward to working with you!
Writing Center Tabling Services
Are you hosting an upcoming orientation, resource fair, or campus event? Let Writing Center representatives join in on the fun! In doing so, we hope to share the many services offered by our center so that students feel more comfortable accessing them across MSU’s campus.
The Writing Center @ MSU offers tabling services during the summer, fall, and spring semesters depending on availability. To request tabling, please fill out the Tabling Request Form at least 2 weeks in advance to allow time for processing.
When you request Writing Center Tabling at your event, we will send a team of consultants prepared to:
- Share the services we offer to MSU students (consultations/writing groups/workshops, etc.)
- Teach students to create WC accounts for scheduling 1:1 writing consultations
- Discuss student employment opportunities at the WC
- Engage students with WC Trivia and our prize wheel
- Give out Writing Center swag!
Please fill out our Google Form to request a tabling team for your upcoming event.
For more information about tabling and to discuss potential collaborations, please email our Workshop/Events Coordinator, Katie Filion, at filionka@msu.edu.
NOTE: Tabling services involves Writing Center representatives setting up a table to talk about what we offer to students and give away swag. If you are looking for representatives to facilitate a specific workshop for your class/event, please see the Workshop Catalog for more details.
what we offer
Students
We support students by offering one-on-one peer writing consultations, writing workshops, graduate and creative writing groups, and student employment opportunities.
Faculty and Staff
We support faculty and staff by offering a writing across the disciplines workshop, grant writing support, professional development resources, writing groups, and syllabus development.
Please contact us for personalized writing support.
Community
We work to meet the community’s literacy needs by offering consultations in collaboration with the East Lansing Public Library through the Community Writing Center and through additional projects housed on our Community Composing Project site (link).
Writing Center Field
We value contributing to writing center studies and fostering professional partnerships by working with other university and community literacy centers both across the United States and internationally.
Our Values
Collaboration
Empathy
Inclusion
“There’s no space that I learned more about how to be a teacher and how to work with students than The Writing Center at MSU. No matter any of its problems, I believe in The Writing Center and what it does and what it’s trying to be for students.”
Wonderful Faison
English Department Chair at Langston University and former Writing Center Consultant
Quote from the Writing Center @ MSU’s Oral History Project
MSU Writing Center Expands Upon Partnerships with African Nations
While marking its 30th anniversary in 2021, the Writing Center at Michigan State University continued to meet the changing needs of a diverse constituency by expanding ongoing collaborations worldwide.
Transforming MSU Playwrighting Cohort creates space for student expression
One of our Writing Center consultants, Brittany Brewer, bring together her interests in education and community engagement through theatre as part of the Transforming MSU Playwriting Cohort Program.
Read the full story through the Office of Institutional Diversity and inclusion