The Sam Houston Writing Center helps SHSU students, staff, and faculty and community members. Our goal is to help people become better writers and so develop more confidence in their writing abilities. To this end, Writing Center tutors provide one-on-one and small group writing instruction. We also offer one-session workshops on various topics relating to writing throughout the school year.Students may come in with any type of writing. We help writers on assignments ranging from English composition essays to science lab reports, résumés, scholarship and job application letters, even M.A. theses and Ph.D. dissertations. We do not offer simply an editing or proofreading service. That is, Writing Center tutors will not merely correct a student’s writing. Instead, we will help students learn prewriting, revising, and editing skills by working with them on the writing tasks they bring in.The Writing Center’s staff includes Diane Dowdey, director, and full-time member of the English faculty, Steve Kaminczak, assistant director, Ronda Harris, center assistant, and graduate and undergraduate students from a variety of majors who are trained as writing tutors. We provide assistance to faculty with their own writing and with constructing writing assignments for their students.

Located in Farrington 111
Phone: (936) 294-3680
E-mail: wctr@shsu.edu