Location: Eddy Hall, Room 6
Email: writing@colostate.edu
Phone Number: (970) 491-0222

Spring 2012 Hours
Eddy Hall, Room 6

Monday-Thursday: 10am to 4pm
Friday: 10am to 1pm

Morgan Library, Computer Room 171

Sunday-Thursday: 6pm to 8pm

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Welcome to the Writing Center!

The Colorado State University Writing Center is a free service open to Colorado State University students, faculty, and staff as well as the local Fort Collins community. Our goal is to engage our community in conversations about writing; to that end, we provide face-to-face and online consultations for writers in all disciplines working on all types of writing from traditional research papers to electronic texts such as websites and blogs. Beginning with writers’ needs and concerns, we use our knowledge and expertise to enhance writers’ understanding of a variety of rhetorical issues, such as purpose, audience, style and conventions. We strive to help writers develop the confidence to make effective writing choices in any writing situation. In these ways, we support the shared goal of writing centers everywhere to help create better writers, not just better writing.

We offer advice and resources at every stage of the writing process:

  1. Starting: Understanding assignments, brainstorming, discussing and developing ideas
  2. Drafting: Finding a focus, choosing a purpose, targeting an audience, developing a thesis or an argument
  3. Revising: Improving your paper's organization, expanding ideas, improving clarity and cohesion
  4. Researching: Finding a topic and choosing search terms, conducting searches (on the Internet and the library catalogue), evaluating sources, integrating material into your essay, documentation styles and citations
  5. Polishing: We will not proofread or edit a paper for you, but we will help you learn how to find and correct errors in punctuation, usage, and grammar.