The FGCU Writing Center assists student writers through free, accessible, learning-based writing consultations.  Our primary goals are to help students improve their abilities to think independently, to write critically, and to learn and implement strategies that will assist them in producing effective writing assignments.

Consultants help writers with brainstorming, formulating a clear thesis, developing their ideas, and revising.  Writing Center sessions are designed to assist writers in improving their ability to revise independently.  Writing Consultants also help writers identify issues of style and mechanics; however, they do not edit or proofread. Our goal is to help student writers improve overall skills (rather than merely working on one specific paper) by providing strategies and practice that will help them discover options and make choices they can build on independently. The writer is an active participant in the session. After a thirty-minute session in which the writer and consultant work on one or two goals defined by the writer, students are expected to produce writing independently.

• Thirty-minute Writing Center consultations are available on a walk-in basis.
• The Writing Center is located in Library West , Room 202C. Library West is not accessible from the main Library building (Library East).