Working with an ESL writer in the writing center is a great way to meet a person from a different culture with a different take on the world.
The material below was originally produced by the Writing Center at MSU to help consultants work better with ESL clients. You are welcome to borrow the materials and share them.
Established primarily to provide writing workshop support to students and assistance to faculty interested in using writing to engage students in active learning and thereby in improving the quality and range of their students' literacy, the Writing Center in Michigan State University conceives its task broadly. Mindful that literacy is learned through use across contexts and over a lifetime, in addition to working to improve the quality and range of literacy in MSU, the Center has reached out to involve itself in the teaching and uses of literacy in both the communities and schools that send students to MSU and the communities and workplaces that students enter when they leave MSU.
Our Philosophy explains more about how we approach our work at the writing center.
Meet the director of the writing center Dr. Trixie Smith
Archives of original MSU Writing Center Research
