About the Writing Center

Our Writing Center has served the SVSU campus for over 25 years. During that time, we have focused on developing a highly trained tutoring staff, creating innovative writing programs designed to serve our students and our community, and collaborating with other departments and organizations to support writing.

The Writing Center offers space for peers to collaborate in considering how writing in any discipline or mode can be crafted and how communicative acts may be received, promoting essential inter-professional and communication skills. Located on the second floor of the library, the Writing Center is a space for collaborative experiential learning innovations

In addition to working with traditional forms of writing and public speaking, the Writing Center features SVSU's most advanced podcasting and generative AI support, free to book for any student or faculty member. Meeting with a peer in The Writing Center can help students connect with their coursework and build powerful communication skills for success in and out of the classroom.

All this work is made possible by our talented tutoring staff, who not only provide tutorial sessions and workshops for our SVSU students every year but share their best practices and research the larger writing center field.

Mission and Vision

The Writing Center serves Saginaw Valley State University by raising the level of excellence in student writing, at all levels and in all disciplines. To achieve this goal, the Writing Center provides one-on-one tutorial sessions, workshops, and various resources for students to develop their skills as writers and critical thinkers within the academic community and the community at large.

Our Writing Center will be a dynamic place of growth for all writers. To achieve this, we will develop innovative programs to serve all students, engage in our campus and community, and support a dedicated tutoring staff that is trained in and contributes to best practices in writing center research.

Values

We value:

• Writing as a powerful form of communication, used to understand ourselves and the world around us.

• Writing, a skill that everyone can learn, as a process requiring practice and commitment.

• Each writer and the intrinsic worth of each writer’s ideas.

• Conversations between writers and peer tutors focused on improving the writer, not simply the writing.

• A welcoming and inclusive environment for all writers.

• Learning from and contributing to our campus community and our community at large.

Strategic Priorities

We will be known for the following:

• Our innovative programs designed to develop students’ writing skills

• Our collaboration with other campus departments and programs to support student writing

• Our highly trained and dedicated tutoring staff

• Our interest in learning from and contributing to research in the field