Need assistance with a paper but have no time to visit us in our brick-and-mortar Writing Center? Get assistance online! While it is our opinion that online assistance can never be as productive as a face-to-face session, we understand that circumstances prevent some students from visiting our Center. We want to help!

Like our on-site Writing Center, our online writing center  can help you get started if you are stuck, expand a current draft if you need prompting for more specifics, get a better handle on what the instructor is asking you to do, or even answer specific grammar and formatting questions (APA, MLA, Chicago, etc.).

What we cannot do is write the paper for you, correct your paper or tell you what grade you should receive. Like our on-site writing center, the online writing center is designed to help you help yourself. We are here to give you feedback and guidance, but we cannot (will not) take over your work. This is your paper. We are only here to assist you.

But we can help. Give us a try. If you would like to work with our Cyber Tutor (the tutor for our online writing center), click "submit a request" (above) and provide the required information. Be sure you have your assignment sheet and your draft handy.

Please Keep in Mind--

1.Please keep in mind that it may take up to 48 hours for a response to a submission (or about 2 business days).

2. We limit our on-site tutoring sessions to 30-45 minutes. Due to time constraints and the number of submissions we receive here at the OWL, we ask that you limit your online submissions to 5 pages--the equivalent to what we might be able to cover in an on-site tutoring session.

3. The OWL is open in fall, spring, and summer semesters only. We are sorry we cannot offer assistance during the mini-terms or finals week.

The Writing Center is dedicated to helping writers take advantage of all opportunities for learning inherent in the writing process; to that end, we can assist writers at any stage of the writing process. By working with students one-on-one or in small groups, tutors can help writers analyze the rhetorical demands of the writing task, generate and focus ideas at the prewriting stage, ensure they are addressing the writing assignment directly and effectively, elaborate and rework a rough draft after hearing the writer read the draft aloud, discover their strengths and weaknesses in a particular rhetorical context, strengthen arguments, spot weak rhetorical choices and make more effective choices, and address formatting or other surface-level concerns. At no point do our tutors write these papers for the students. All writers working in the Writing Center maintain control of their essays; we simply offer support and feedback and ask questions they may not have been asking themselves (or may not have even known to ask themselves).