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The center will be closed from Friday, April 18, through Monday, April 21. Tutoring will resume on Tuesday, April 22.Read More

The Richard Wright Center for Writing, Rhetoric, and Research will host the Mississippi Writing Center Association (MSWCA) conference on March 22, 2025 Inflection Point: Navigating Crisis and Uncertainty in Writing Centers For more information, visit the MSWCA conference website.  Read More

Richard Wright Center (RWC) tutors Natasha Arrington and Mariah Christian presented at the conference of the Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA) that was held February 20–22 at the University of Alabama-Birmingham. Together with Dr. Kathi Griffin, RWC Director, and Dr. Tatiana Glushko, RWC Coordinator, they presented on “Replicating a Student-Led Writing Center Study at an...Read More

Tatiana Glushko For universities in the U.S., including JSU, increasing the number of faculty publications and supporting the development of faculty as researchers and teachers of research has been an important issue. Everyone who writes for publication knows it is not an easy process, especially for someone who writes in a second or third language,...Read More

  Jessica Trotter, Social Work Major Many students at JSU view their campus as a second home; therefore, we need to advocate for the issues we see here in the surrounding communities of our school. On November 5, 2019, the United States has a gubernatorial general election. I wholeheartedly trust that if the people of...Read More

Check out the work of two RWC tutors published in Dangling Modifer, an online journal for peer tutors in writing. Arica Norzagaray, a PhD student in Psychology, drew a cartoon, Writers Block, and Anthony Keys, a recent graduate from the Chemistry Department, wrote the Knights of the Writing Center.Read More

In February 2016 we had a flurry of students visiting the center, all working on the same assignment: They had to write an essay using a Schaffer paragraph structure. (The tutors and I had to google what it means.) Often we see students who are asked to write a cause-and-effect paragraph or a descriptive paragraph. Sometimes...Read More