Writing Center

Make an appointment online. Choose “In-person Writing Center Appointment” to meet with a consultant on campus. Choose “Virtual Writing Center Appointment” to get asynchronous feedback on your document. You can choose your day/time/tutor. Appointments must be made at least 12 hours in advance.

Any time before or during your appointment, log on to SSCOnline. You can upload your paper by clicking your appointment and then the “file” button. You can also type notes to your tutor to ask questions or share your assignment instructions.  

You can pull your report from SSCOnline. Please see the link on the right-hand side, “Click Here for Helpful Appointment Videos,” to watch a short tutorial on pulling your visit report.

The Creative Writing group is an extension of the Writing Center that focuses on workshopping creative literary pieces (e.g., short stories, poems, creative nonfiction, screenplays, potential novels, etc.). We can offer grammar critique, but we mainly focus on content editing and genre structure. We meet in the Writing Center, MC 1.310. For more academic papers — such as rhetorical analyses or research reports — that focus more on grammar, citations, and analysis, or for long-term writing improvement, we suggest scheduling a Writing Center appointment or visiting Lo-Fi drop-in hours.

The Writing Center opens after regular office hours for you to have a relaxing space to work on any writing assignment. We dim the lights and play soft lo-fi music, and you can work independently or have a drop-in session with a Writing Center Peer Leader. We meet in the Writing Center, MC 1.310.

The Writing Center in the Student Success Center is part of the Office of Undergraduate Education and employs undergraduate peer tutors. To schedule with Graduate Writing Services in the Office of Graduate Education, please visit this link. If you are a graduate student, staff, or faculty and think we can help you out in any way, please reach out at writingcenter@utdallas.edu.