Welcome to the Reading and Writing Center! Appointments are available online and in person (in the CARE Center, Ely Library, 2nd floor).
The Reading and Writing Center helps students, staff, and faculty at Westfield State University further develop their understanding of reading, writing, and critical thinking. Our staff of professional consultants and peer tutors look forward to working with you on any type of writing project, including essays, lab reports, literature reviews, personal statements, and cover letters.
While the Center helps students work on particular assignments, our mission is to make students become better readers, thinkers, and writers. Therefore, the Center helps students further develop reading comprehension and learning strategies. We teach students to respond critically to texts and other sources of information.
We teach the entire writing process, including rhetorical analysis, preparation and invention, research, research question and thesis development, organization, drafting, revision, and editing for grammar and punctuation. We teach students how to write clearly, precisely, engagingly, and thoughtfully.
The Center also provides faculty and staff with the training and the resources necessary to make more effective use of reading and writing in the classroom.
The Center dedicates itself to making Westfield State University a campus committed in principle and practice to reading, writing, and critical thinking in the belief that these abilities are fundamental to life-long learning and success.
