Support for Graduate Students

We understand that our graduate students have a unique set of challenges, and we are excited to provide writing support for you! In addition to offering long-term writing tutoring for you on your projects, we have a graduate assistant dedicated to your support. Learn more about writing services tailored to you! 

Our Graduate Student Writing Services

Resources For Graduate Faculty

The Writing Center facilitates class spotlight workshops to help students become successful writers while collaborating and participating in their own learning. We demonstrate for your class what our tutoring appointments can do for you. In this manner, everyone in the class gains an understanding of how they can become better writers while also gaining a perspective on how to talk about writing.

Check out our faculty resource page to learn more about our services to support you and your students!

Connect With Our Graduate Assistant

The Writing Center has a graduate assistant specifically tasked with helping you develop as graduate writers. The Graduate Assistant seeks to promote your success by addressing your particular needs. We provide specific support in the following ways:

  • Offering specialized tutoring aimed at breaking down the expectations of graduate writing
  • Providing long-term support for students working on large projects
  • Maintaining flexible hours to accommodate graduate students’ schedule

Contact Our Graduate Assistants

Kyla Riddle | Writing Center G.A. and M.A. Student in Criminal Justice
Email: riddlek@mail.wou.edu,  writingcenter@wou.edu

Ailyn Angel | Writing Center G.A. and M.A.T. Student
Email: angelai@mail.wou.edu,  writingcenter@wou.edu

Phone: (503) 838-8286

Graduate Tutoring Appointments

The Writing Center offers tutoring throughout the entire writing process. Since papers involved in graduate programs are typically extensive (e.g., portfolios and thesis projects), the Writing Center offers long-term tutoring to assist with revisions. We encourage you to make multiple appointments with the same tutor on a weekly or biweekly basis in order to get the best service and advice possible. Our appointments are available online to meet you wherever you happen to be located. Sessions are focused on your concerns and are intended to help you grow in your writing abilities.

A Note on Editing: We want to help you at any point of the writing process — understanding assignment directions, drafting and outlining, or revisions — but we are not an editing service, so we do not offer line-by-line editing, even for long graduate projects. Additionally, we cannot make recommendations for outside professional editing services, since we are unable to monitor the quality of external sources.

CONNECT WITH US!

Email us at writingcenter@wou.edu or give us a call at (503) 838-8286.
You can also stop by our office in APSC 301. We're excited to meet you!