Writing Center

Evans 233
Tel: ext.5903
Email: bwc@berry.edu
Director: Dr. Chris Diller
cdiller@berry.edu

NEW! We now have EVENING HOURS in the Memorial Library: Monday - Thursday and Sunday from 7-9 P.M.  Writing consultants are located on the second floor in the Seminar Room toward the middle of the building and are available on a first come, first served basis.

What kind of help does the Writing Center offer?

As one of many free support services offered to students, the Berry College Writing Center is available to help you with the writing you do for any course.  The Center is staffed by friendly, experienced peer consultants who have taken a course in tutoring and have been successful writers in their own classes.  They can help you with any part of the invention or drafting process: from brainstorming and organizing ideas, to revising for complexity and quality of thought, to editing your paper for format and grammar.  In essence, they will help you to think through your ideas and to see your paper from the perspective of a real yet sympathetic reader. 

What happens at the Writing Center?

Typically, a student will make an appointment with the Writing Center and meet with a consultant for 30 minutes or so.  The consultant will ask you about your assignment, where you are in the drafting process, your sense of your paper, any concerns that you would like to address, and where you would like them to focus their reading and response.  By the end of the session, you will leave with several concrete suggestions for revision and a better understanding of your paper’s structure and content.  One thing consultants do not do, however, is simply proofread papers; rather, their goal is to help you develop the revision skills needed to do well on both current and future assignments.  It is therefore helpful if you visit the Writing Center early in the drafting process and, perhaps, return again to work on final editing and formatting concerns.

When is the Writing Center open?

Writing consultants are available in Evans 233 on Monday-Thursday from 9-3 and Friday from 9-1.  And we now have evening hours at a satellite station in the Memorial Library: Monday-Thursday and Sunday from 7-9 P.M.  To find us in the library, look for the signs directing you to the “seminar room” located on the second floor toward the middle of the building. Consultants are available during these evening hours on a first-come-first-served basis.

How do I make an appointment for the Writing Center’s Evans location?

If you wish to make an appointment for our daytime hours, please feel free to drop by, call, (5903) or email (bwc@berry.edu) the Writing Center.

What if I am interested in becoming a Writing Consultant?  

Great!  We are always on the lookout for enthusiastic students who want to help others with writing.  Generally, writing consultants are sophomores or juniors who have completed the first year writing sequence at Berry and have a recommendation from a professor.  To learn more about becoming a peer writing consultant, or if you have any other questions, please contact the Writing Center director.

What is happening at the Writing Center? 

If you haven’t stopped by Evans 233 recently, you may not know that the Writing Center has been repainted, has new furniture and computer equipment, and now has a nice, airy workspace.  For the future, we are working on additional ways to bring our services to you—such as a “Writing Fellows Program” in which a writing consultant is paired with a professor in a general education course and works as an “in-house” writing consultant for the class.

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