FAQs for Faculty

You can invite a consultant from the ISUWC to visit your classes! We promise not to take more than 15 minutes of your class time, and your students will leave knowing how to make an appointment, how the center works, and how they can prepare for an appointment. To arrange for a visit, just email isu-writingcenter@indstate.edu.

The ISU Writing Center tutors are available to help you at any step of the way in the writing process, from brainstorming to editing. We offer free consultations to all ISU students for any writing project. Appointments are available on a first-come-first-serve basis Monday-Thursday from 10:00 AM-8:00 PM, Friday from 10:00 AM-5:00 PM, and Sunday from 4:00 PM- 10:00 PM.The Writing Center is located in Cunningham Memorial Library on the second floor. To schedule an appointment or if you have any other questions, visit this website: www.indstate.edu/isuwc, and follow the instructions for making an appointment through indstate.mywconline.com

Your student can bring any writing-related project to the ISUWC. The only exceptions are take-home tests or quizzes. Assignments can be any length, but keep in mind that appointments only last 50 minutes; if your student brings a 25-page paper for one appointment, we may only get through five pages! 

The ISU Writing Center is open to any enrolled ISU student. We also serve staff and faculty members. We see a wide range of students, from first-year students to PhD students working on dissertations. Some of our visitors are struggling in their classes, while others are advanced students. Many of our visitors contend with writing anxiety, and some come see us for tips on how to take notes, manage their time, or write more efficiently. Every student can benefit from writing help, and every student is welcome at the Writing Center.

The ISU Writing Center staff is happy to offer specialized presentations on any number of topics related to writing! If you would like to request a presentation, please email the isu-writingcenter@indstate.edu at least two weeks ahead of the desired date.

In order to protect students' confidentiality, we will only provide you with a consultation form if the student asks for it.

Our goal is not to fix papers but to help students become more independent writers. Tutoring is a long process of guiding students through their work and helping them to identify their own mistakes. Fifty minute appointments go by pretty quickly. Additionally, your students are always in charge of implementing the changes in their own work; the consultant does not make changes for the student. 

Yes, we are closed for finals week. This is so that our consultants, who are also students, may prepare for their own finals. All tutors must maintain high GPA in order to work in the center, and we take their success very seriously. To make up for this closure, we do offer extra availability during study week.