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Writing Learning Center

The WLC will open Sunday, January 29, 2012

Professor Rachel Hall, Director
Michele Feeley, Administrator 

Where is the Writing Learning Center?

The Writing Learning Center located in Milne Library, Room 210, is open Monday - Friday, 1:00 pm-5:00 pm, Monday-Thursday 8:00 pm-11:00 pm and Sunday 3:00 pm-9:00 pm. Students will be seen on a first-come, first-served basis. 

Coming soon: The WLC will soon have a system to book appointments online.

Who Will Work With Me?

The Writing Learning Center is staffed by experienced student writers from a variety of academic disciplines. All WLC tutors have been formally trained and are available to help you:

  • Get started, brainstorm
  • Organize your thoughts
  • Write a thesis statement
  • Develop ideas
  • Tackle grammar and style problems
  • Cite sources

What Should I Expect?

When you arrive at the Writing Learning Center, you will meet one-on-one with a trained tutor for 30 minutes. WLC tutors will not proofread a paper for you. We will not write your assignments.

We will give you examples of how to proceed; the point is to help you find your own personalized solution.

What About Confidentiality?

Here at the Writing Learning Center, we believe your choice to seek tutoring is a private one. Our staff respects your confidentiality. Seeking out a writing tutor is a good, productive choice. When you ask for help at the WLC, you are taking advantage of a service that most everyone uses to their benefit at some point in their academic career. The WLC has Macintosh and PC computers reserved for tutor/client sessions. Bring your disk and work directly on-screen with a writing tutor.

How Can I Get the Most Out of the WLC?

The WLC is open to serve you and help you get the most out of your writing potential. Come prepared. Bring your assignment sheet with you, along with any other relevant textbooks or research materials. You don't have to have something written before you show up. It's helpful to bring whatever you might have in order to make your visit most effective. Be prepared to spend time on your work.

A session at the Writing Learning Center, while rewarding, can be an intense experience for both you and your tutor. Come more than once. Seek out a particular tutor with whom you work well, or try a variety of tutors if you need a different perspective.

The Writing Learning Center is the place to get help on all types of writing assignments such as:

  • essays
  • research papers
  • business writing exams
  • lab reports
  • speeches
  • public service announcements
  • film and music reviews
  • news articles
  • cover letters
  • resumes
  • applications
  • scholarship and grant proposals

The Writing Learning Center has books on referencing for all academic disciplines, including MLA, APA, and Turabian styles.

Who Are the Tutors?

Elizabeth Barber is a senior English and International Relations major. She wants to be a journalist, and is "a promising candidate for unemployment."

Connor Burgevin - Hello! I am a junior double majoring in English and French. When not communing with my books on the top floor of Milne library, I enjoy ultimate frisbee, bhangra (which is an Indian/hip hop fusion dance), cooking, and crossword puzzles. As far as tutoring goes, I stress the fundamentals of laying out a solid thesis, but I am willing to help you out with whatever questions you might have.

Shea Frazier is a senior English/Creative Writing major who holds the firm belief that there are only two types of people in this world: those that own Welsh Corgis and those that don’t.  One day, she dearly hopes to become one of the former.  Until that happens, she fills the void by being extremely active around campus and bothering her housemates.  Also, she’s a tutor and darn happy about it too.

Gabrielle Gosset is a senior double major in Creative Writing and Communication.  She loves to write fiction and poetry.  Gabi is also the President of the Sigma Tau Delta, English Honor Society, and a GOLD Leader Mentor.  She is working on a creative Undergraduate Thesis this year and is excited to be a tutor.

Stephanie Iasiello is a senior English Literature and Black Studies major with a minor in Psychology. She has a penchant for Moleskine notebooks and anything pink. When she's not doing erudite things, she can be found at Leg Up Stables with her horse and the rest of the Geneseo Equestrian Team.

Cailin Kowalewski is a junior English Literature major with minors in Communication and Spanish.  This is Cailin's first semester tutoring at the Writing Learning Center , and as such doesn't believe she's earned the right to write a fantastically creative Bio yet.

Adam Lashinsky is a junior English Literature major who swears by minimalist footwear. When he’s not out preaching about the miraculous anatomy of the human foot (which is among the only non-literary topics he has academic interest in), he’s most likely walking through the woods, or looking at pictures of cats on the internet. He also swears by the utility of the dash—it’s his favorite punctuation mark.

Claire Littlefield is a senior Studio Art and English Literature major. Her vices include: wearing fishnets on \

cold winter nights, eating midnight bowls of oatmeal, having giggling fits in the English Office, and q-tipping her ears despite the fact that she knows it's a very dangerous activity. She's also all about soccer, rugby, and just generally tackling things. On a relatively unrelated note, she's obsessed with painting and plans on doing it for the rest of her life.

Yael Massen is a Junior Psychology major, Creative Writing minor in her second year tutoring at the WLC. Yael is most happy when knitting with beautiful yarn, engaging in stimulating conversations, being in nature, listening to quality music, and sitting on her window seat thinking. Her mantra for tutoring is that everyone is capable of being a good writer of any paper, poem, essay, story, or document. The key is to believe in your message and trust your voice to convey it.

Michael Maguire is a senior Psychology major and Film Studies minor. He desires to learn as much about the humanities as possible and one day expound on those gleanings to inquisitive students. He is unmistakably quixotic.

Emilie O'Neill is a pre-med senior English major who enjoys running, nature and spending time with family and friends in addition to reading and writing about literature.

Katie Peterson is a senior Creative Writing and Studio Art double major from Saratoga Springs, NY. She enjoys listening to, making, and dancing to music, as well as gardening, hiking, and cooking delicious vegetarian meals.

Will Porter is a senior English major. This is his third year tutoring at the Writing Learning Center. He also has some experience as a tutor and TA for the ESOL department.

Justine Rosen is a senior English major and Psychology minor. In addition to being a WLC tutor, she is a member of Alpha Phi Omega, an Orchesis choreographer, and vice president of Sigma Tau Delta, the English Honor Society.