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Contact Information:
Writing Center
Sunderland 010
CPO 6114
Warren Wilson College
P.O. Box 9000
Asheville, NC 28815-9000
828-771-3003 (ph)

Julie Wilson, Director
Email Julie
828-771-5899 (ph)

Welcome to the Writing Center!

Schedule an Appointment. If you have any trouble with our online schedule, call us at 828-771-3003.

New! Writing Center Crew Application

Faculty Application for a Writing Fellow

What We Offer

Who We Are

Hours and Location

Events

Tip Sheets

Online Resources

Auspex, the undergraduate research journal, is now available from the Writing Center or online.

Check out pictures from the 2012 Warren Wilson Spelling Bee:

What We Offer:

The core of the Writing Center’s work is the one-on-one writing conference, a 30 or 60 minute session with one of our friendly crew members. It is fine to come before you begin writing; often, a conversation with a peer is just the thing to help you get started. If you do come with a draft, a crew member will read the draft with you and have a conversation with you about your ideas and your writing. Together, you will set goals and work on aspects of your paper, such as organization, analysis, citing outside sources, or writing style. You may schedule a session in advance or drop by lower Sunderland during our regular hours. We also have weekly hours at the library.

Consider enrolling in Weekly Writing Sessions (WRI 105) if you want to improve your writing skills generally and would benefit from structure and ongoing feedback. Each enrolled student meets weekly with a crew member under the guidance of the Writing Center director. Some students meet in a small group to work on creative writing. The course is one-credit, pass-fai

We lead classroom visits and hold in-house instructional workshops on a variety of academic, creative, and personal writing topics. For example, a faculty member may request a workshop in advance of a paper assignment on a topic such as integrating outside sources or organizing the paper. Or a student group may want help writing materials for an activist campaign. We can also visit a class, crew, or group simply to introduce ourselves and describe the Writing Center’s offerings.

Our resource library includes a number of style and writing guides, which can answer many of your writing questions, from when to use a semicolon to how to overcome writer’s block. The Writing Center offers a congenial space where you can study, write, enjoy a cup of coffee or tea, and talk with your peers.

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Who We Are:

Peer Tutors

Courtney:

Major: Social Work
Tutoring specialties: Brainstorming and reverse outlining
Class experience: Spanish 4, Psychology, Human Development, College Composition
Favorite beverage: Chocolate milk

Elizabeth:

Major: Biology and Environmental Studies
Tutoring Specialties: Science writing, structure and organization, conciseness
Class Experience: Intro to Creative Writing, Creative Writing Nonfiction, Advanced Creative Writing Nonfiction, Selected 20th Century Authors, Environmental Writing, General Chemistry I and II, Organic Chemistry, Genetics, Conservation/Wildlife Biology, Ecology, Aquatic Ecology, NSS Research Design
Favorite Singer: Stevie Nicks

Freesia:

Major: Gender and Women's Studies
Tutoring specialties: Service reflections, personal narrative, planning projects, organization, creative writing, social science research
Class experience: Sociology, Creative Writing, Religion, Theatre, Poetry, Women's Literature, Women's War Narratives, Writing about Place, Teaching Writing in Communities, African American Literature
Favorite poets: Lucille Clifton, Frank X Walker, Pablo Neruda, Denise Duhamel

Ilinca:

Majors: Creative Writing and Gender and Women's Studies
Tutoring Specialties: outlining, literary analysis, exegeses, creative writing, assorted gender studies assignments.
Class Experience: Creative Writing Intro, Poetry, Writing About Place; Feminist Thought, Gender and Social Change, Women's War Narratives, Gender, Development, and the Environment; Enlightenment, Literature by Women, Modernism, Linguistics.
Favourite Chip Flavour: Salt and Vinegar

Jamila:

Major: Gender and Women’s Studies, Environmental Studies:Environmental Education
Tutoring Specialties: feminist theory, analysis, organization/structure, outlining, brainstorming ideas, style, clarity of ideas, job applications, personal/creative writing, reflections
Class Experience: Feminist Thought, Chemistry, Teaching Writing in Communities, Methods and Materials in Environmental Education, Universal Adventure Programming, Biology, Literature by Women, Gender and Sexuality in Film
Spirit Animal: Cat

Mary:

Major: Integrative Studies in Chemistry/Biology and Gender and Women’s Studies
Tutoring specialties: lab reports, brainstorming and outlining
Class experience: Gen. Chem. I and II, Organic Chem. I and II, Analytical Chem., Biochemistry, Biopsychology, Microbiology, Intro to Philosophy, Intro to Psychology, Infant and Child Development, Literature by Women
Favorite type of puppy: Italian Greyhound

Stephen:

Major: History and Political Science
Tutoring specialties: Style, grammar, rhetoric, organization and outlining, analysis
Class experience: A variety of composition, English, economics, archaeology and history classes
Favorite personal care item: Mustache wax

Regina:

Major: Creative Writing
Tutoring Specialties: Grammar, syntax, streamlining, outlining and planning, brainstorming, style
Class experience: Various creative writing, various literature, various psychology, Women's Studies, philosophy, history/government
Favorite superfood: Raw cacao

Director of the Writing Center & College Composition

Julie: This is my fourth year directing the Writing Center at Warren Wilson. I hold a BA in English from Oberlin College and an MA and PhD in Education from UNC-Chapel Hill. I teach new peer tutors through the course "Theory and Practice in Tutoring Writing" and oversee the one-to-one peer tutoring and project work of all Writing Center crew. I also teach a service-learning course, through which students and I partner with local agencies to teach writing to adolescents and adults beyond our campus. As Director of College Composition, I work with faculty to address students' writing needs in their first year and in writing-heavy courses across the curriculum.

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Hours and Locations:

We have moved all of our appointment scheduling online; click here to make an appointment to meet with a peer tutor in the Writing Center or the library. The Writing Center is in lower Sunderland, on the side closest to Vining. On Sunday and Thursday evenings, we tutor in the McGuire Room of the library. If you are working on a piece of writing for a course, bring a copy of your assignment, your notes, and two copies of any draft you have started. It is also fine to come before you begin drafting.

Hours:

We will be in the Writing Center in Lower Sunderland if not otherwise noted.

Sundays
6-8 pm: Library only (McGuire Room)

Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays
8:30 am-noon
1-5 pm*
6-8 pm

* Tuesdays, we close 4-5 for crew meetings.

Thursdays:
8:30 am - noon
1-5 pm
6-8 pm: Library only

Fridays:
8:30 am - noon
1-4 pm

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Events:

Join us for the 4th Annual Campuswide Spelling Bee!

Teams of three staff, students, and children compete for great prizes. Faculty members participate in a half-time lightning round Spell Off. Audience members cheer on their favorite spellers. MFA Director Debra Allbery pronounces words. The costumed and musical instrument accompanied Writing Center crew judges. All raise money for the Buncombe County Literacy Council.

Monday April 9, 2012
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Canon Lounge

Click here to view photographs from last year's Bee, taken by Alissa Whelan.