Because of high student traffic during the final two weeks of the semester, the Center for Writing will offer services by appointment only from Monday, April 22, through Friday, May 4. Also because of high demand, the deadline for submitting papers for spring courses to our online service is 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 2nd. After that, the center will offer face-to-face assistance (by appointment only), so please plan ahead. The center offers no tutorial services during finals week because staff members will be busy giving and grading final exams. Please also be aware of our long-standing policy, which appears below, regarding long papers (over 15 pages): We limit face-to-face appointments to an hour, during which a consultant and writer can read and respond to about ten or twelve pages. We also limit the time a consultant may spend on an online (OWL) submission from an undergraduate student to one hour, which means the student should emphasize his or her specific concerns (in order of priority) in the e-mail message that accompanies a submission. A consultant will read as much of the paper as possible in an hour and comment on issues he or she detects, but he or she will not attempt to catch or comment on every error or issue. Instead, the consultant will focus on issues he or she and the student deem most important. We impose this limit not only because of time constraints but because our goal is not to produce a "perfect" text, but to increase the writing expertise of the student. We expect the student to learn from these sessions, whether electronic or face to face, and apply what they learn not only to the remainder of the current text but also to future texts.

Welcome to TCU's Center for Writing!

We are trained, experienced writing consultants, happy to assist you with your writing needs, whether you are student, staff, or faculty. We can assist at any stage of your writing project, from topic generation through organizing your ideas and documenting your sources. We serve as a friendly audience to offer feedback and suggestions on essays; research papers; book reviews; reports; theses; dissertations; book manuscripts; internship, graduate, medical, or law school application essays; and cover letters and resumes. We are an instructional service, not a proofreading or editing service, but we will provide suggestions on identifying and correcting common punctuation or grammatical errors. To encourage independence in undergraduate writers, we limit our input to three tutoring sessions on a particular project.

To make an appointment with one of our writing consultants, click on the links on the left to go to our secure appointment scheduler. We encourage appointments, but walk-ins are always welcome.