Supporting our Mutual Goals

Faculty members are our best advocates, and we thank you for recommending the Writing Center to students who are invested in their writing projects. Like you, the Writing Center maintains a student-centered focus. Our mission is not to proofread or to create perfect papers but to help students become effective, independent writers.

Include Writing Center information on your syllabus. A sample paragraph is available here.

Schedule a Writing Center orientation for your class. You may schedule a 20 minute orientation in the Writing Center, or a consultant can visit your classroom. Call us at 554-2946.

Encourage all students to visit the center for individual consultations at any stage of the writing process.

Request consultation reports. If you would like to be informed of your students' progress, remind them to request a report. Due to privacy issues, we cannot send a report to faculty unless the student consents. If a report does not show up in your UNO Lotus Notes email within two business days, first check your spam quarantine, then notify the director.

Send a copy of your writing assignment(s) to the Writing Center. If we have your assignments, criteria, and syllabus on file, we can better help your student writers.

If you have questions or concerns about a Writing Center consultation, contact the Associate Director by phone at 554-2946 or via email at mkruger@unomaha.edu.

Faculty Resources

Critical thinking

Mission: Critical (San Jose State U)
Teaching Reasoning (Maryland Community College)

Plagiarism

Plagiarism Tutorial "How to Recognize Plagiarism" ( Indiana University, Bloomington)
Plagiarism Statement ("Ethical Use of Print and Online Sources") developed by UNO's Writing Across the Curriculum for use in syllabi

Designing a writing assignment

Creating Effective Writing Assignments (MIT)
Designing Effective Writing Assignments (UMUC)

ESL

National Center for ESL Literacy Education
English as a Second Language

Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)

WAC (Northern Illinois U)
Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse

See additional resources on our Resources page and through our PowerPoint Workshops link.