Open 7 Days a Week, Including Some Evenings

To best serve students, the writing center offers appoinments 7 days a week, and even has some evening appointments. Please be sure to check the scheduling application for available times and days.

About the Writing Center

The Writing Center is a FREE service provided by the School of Humanities for the St. Edward's University community. The Center is located in Room 105 in Sorin Hall (#14 on the campus map). You may make  appointments seven days a week, up to two weeks from now, using our online scheduler. You will see occasional "walk-in" slots on the schedule; these slots cannot be reserved, so be sure to arrive 15 minutes early. However, the overwhelming majority of our slots are reserved for appointments.

Please plan ahead and make your appointments early, when you first get an assignment. We are often "booked solid" (or nearly so) by about the fifth or sixth week of each semester. Be proactive.

Appointment Policies

• Appointments are for 30 minutes each and begin at the scheduled time.
• Students may schedule up to two 30-minute appointments per week, but Capstone students may schedule up to two 60-minute appointments per week.
• No student may schedule more than 60 minutes of appointments on any one day.
• Please be on time for your appointment, and be sure to bring the assignment as well as your hard-copy draft.
• The Writing Center cannot print your draft for you. Printing is available in the campus computer labs. The computer lab closest to the Writing Center is in Moody Hall, directly across from Sorin Hall.
• If you can't keep your appointment, please be courteous to others and cancel your appointment online, using the same scheduling application you used to make the appointment. Two missed, uncancelled appointments will bar you from scheduling any further appointments for the rest of the semester.

Our Clients and Services

Students, faculty and staff may come to the Center for help with any writing project, including

• formal and informal essays, letters, and journals;
• mission course papers (e.g., Capstone and American Dilemmas);
• technical reports, memos, summaries, case studies, group reports, PowerPoint presentations, and other assignments;
• graduate school and scholarship essays; and
• cover letters and resumes.

To help our clients become better writers, our instructors first focus on the big concerns, such as

• thesis/main idea;
• content development--outlines, rough drafts, and revisions;
• introduction/conclusion;
• organization;
• transitions; and
• MLA and APA documentation and use of authoritative sources.

When necessary, we will also provide assistance with grammar, mechanics, and style.  However, the Writing Center is not an editing or proofreading service. The writing center is a place of learning, learning tied to larger goals that the university has for its students. Thus, in addition to improving your paper now, we want to help you become a better writer in the long run. 

How and Why do St. Edward's Students Use the Writing Center?

Watch the video to hear from students in their own words: