The Writing Center is open for Fall 2023 from the first week of classes through finals week. We offer in-person as well as online appointments. Appointments can be scheduled for 15, 30, 45, or 60 minutes. Please call the Writing Center at 860-832-2761 or email Dr. Amanda Fields at afields@ccsu.edu with questions.
Please schedule appointments here through WCONLINE. Click on "Next Week" to see future appointment availability.
In-Person Appointments
Location: Willard DiLoreto W314
COVID-19: We respect everyone's decisions about masking and social distancing. We expect that all visitors to the Writing Center will respect Writing Center staff decisions about masking and social distancing.
Online Appointments
At the time of your appointment, log back in, click on your appointment form, and click on "Join online consultation." A Writing Center tutor will be there to walk you through the process. You have the option to choose chat, audio, and/or video functions in online sessions, and you will be able to import and export documents.
If you have not yet registered for WCONLINE, you will need to do this first before scheduling an appointment. Anyone with a CCSU email address is able to register and make an appointment.
If you have any questions, please contact Dr. Amanda Fields at afields@ccsu.edu.
Antiracism, Social Justice, and Writing
The CCSU Writing Center is committed to anti-racist actions so that we can be fully supportive of writers. We promise to think deeply and critically about how tutoring practices and environments sustain or create inequities.
Academic writing and literacy are historically connected to racism and systemic inequity. Racism is ingrained in every institutional and societal system. Denying its existence is disingenuous and perpetuates harm.
Naming and resisting racist literacy practices is an opportunity to collaborate about difficult subjects and become active in positive social change.
Therefore, Writing Center staff have a commitment to:
- openly acknowledge and resist racism.
- help our diverse population of visitors feel welcome in the Writing Center, online and in person.
- recognize and encourage the power and validity of different types of English and all languages.
- work to make sure that writers feel understood and can communicate their meanings.
We will strive to:
- hire and support a diverse staff with a commitment to learning about literacy and inequity.
- learn, develop, and use pedagogical practices that address racism and other forms of oppression that intersect with writing.
- do our best to stay informed, updated, and cognizant of racial issues and injustices locally and beyond.
- address racist acts, comments, microaggressions, and writing.
- continue to recognize and act against our own unconscious racism. Implicate ourselves.
- normalize anti-racist discourse, which is crucial to racial justice.
- enable ourselves and others to recognize racism.
- acknowledge that racist practices occur on a daily basis, and in the everyday.
Our statement, and our actions, are works in progress. We are constantly learning, and we are implicated in racist institutional structures. We are a support service staffed primarily by students, and we work with all writers, regardless of background, experience, or perceived ability. We promise to engage in open conversations and collaboration among the CCSU Writing Center, students, and professors.
