The Writing Center, located on the first floor of the Athens State University Library in the Learning Commons Area. The Writing Center provides a supportive learning environment for students in all colleges at ASU to meet their writing goals and objectives. The Writing Center is staffed with peer writing advisors—students —who work with their peers on various academic and professional writing assignments. Writing advisors engage writers in conversation about their writing, pose questions, and discuss revision strategies. Writing advisors do not edit, proofread, or write texts for their peers—although they do have productive, educational ways to discuss grammar, editing skills, and proofreading. Come for help with brainstorming, invention, arrangement, revision, style, and sentence structure for both traditional “paper” assignments and multimodal projects such as a Powerpoint presentation or a website. We provide writing sessions face-to-face, and we are piloting a new textual "chat" feature for live online sessions. Online chat sessions must be scheduled in advance, and students must "show up" online at the scheduled time to keep an appointment.

The Writing Center's Hours

The Writing Center is open Monday through Friday during regular school semesters to offer free assistance to Athens State student writers. To view our schedule and available appointment times, please register and log in through the online schedule system. You may also call or email the Writing Center director to request information or request assistance in scheduling appointments.

Walk-ins are always welcome, but to ensure an appointment please schedule it in advance whenever possible.

The Writing Center also offers free writing workshops and events in the library. See the Writing Center blog for details.

Contact the Writing Center by calling (256) 216-6665.

Have questions? Interested in working for the Writing Center?

Contact the Writing Center Director
Dr. Tony Ricks, Director
Office: Campus Library, Room 121
Phone: 256-216-6670, or campus ext. 670.
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