Contact the Center

By Phone
(708) 608-4216

By E-mail
writingcenter
@morainevalley.edu

Permanent Staff

Sheryl Lyn Bundy,
Co-Director,
Assoc. Professor, Communications/Literature

Mike McGuire,
Co-Director,
Asst. Professor, Communications/Literature

The Great Pumpkin

Check out our first-ever Writing Center pumpkin!

Finally: we have a pumpkin. Called "If the Writing Center Had a Fridge," the pumpkin design captures the spirit of the Writing Center. It features an original poem, for one; it also has other items tacked to it, like a staff photo and a paper that earned an A+ thanks to a great Writing Center consultation. Voting ends on Tuesday--and all proceeds go to the MVCC Library Scholarship Fund.

The Writing Center: Now Open Saturdays!

Get up and get some feedback!

Check out our current schedule, where you'll find new Saturday hours! We're open from 9-1. W3 decided to offer weekend time so that we could increase our availability and make the Writing Center and its services fit into your schedule. No appointment is necessary--just come on in!

Faculty: Did You Know? The Writing Center Is for You, Too!

You may have just found the greatest sounding board . . . ever!

Faculty, if you're looking for a couple of writing-centered folks to bounce classroom writing task ideas off of (no matter the subject you teach), then look no further than your friendly neighborhood co-directors. Here are just a few writing-related topics on which we can provide ideas as well as feedback:

writing assignment instruction sheets
writing assignment assessment materials
in-class writing tasks
academic integrity issues that pertain to writing, such as plagiarism
strategies for dealing with errors in student writing

Simply email either of the co-directors to get the conversation going; we'll take it from there!

From Our Annual Report

Take a look at some of our very cool data!

During the fall and spring semesters of the 2007-2008 academic year, we served 328 individual clients and held 518 consulting sessions--that's a lot of repeat business! In fact, 36% of our sessions were with returning clients. Check back as we unroll more of the results of our number crunching!

Our pumpkin is on display in the library. Voting ends Tuesday!

Hey, Students: Don't Think You Need "Help" with Your Writing?

If you're thinking of it as "help," then maybe you've got the wrong idea about this place.

The fact is, experienced writers recognize the point at which they know their own writing too well--when each sentence is practically memorized. That's when seasoned writers look to a fresh pair of eyes; they know that having someone read their writing "cold" will provide the perspective they need.

That notion may be in contrast with the kind of help a less seasoned writer might seek out. Typically, the less experienced writer thinks he or she needs only editing advice. Where are the errors? such a writer might ask. What needs to be "fixed"?

The Writing Center is more about making confident, experienced, stronger writers--writers who ask the "big" questions first: Is it interesting? Is it developed? Is it supported? Is it detailed? Is it graceful? Because of our specific mission, we see our staff as consultants, not "tutors." We feed back our impressions as readers so that you can make better choices about how to reach us--and by extension your teacher, your fellow students and even the world.