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UMSL
Writing Academic Center

Your gateway to better writing!

The Writing Center can help you become a better writer and help you improve your work. We offer free one-on-one and group consultations on papers, projects, and presentations.

Drop on by, see our new on-campus facility and meet our trained graduate student writing consultants. Or join us online from anywhere at our new facility in Second Life or via email. We look forward to meeting you!

Visit us . . .

On Campus Writing Center
222 SSB
314-516-6863

Make an appointment with a writing consultant and bring your papers, projects, and presentations with you. OR, work on your papers here and have a consultant nearby. Bring your group project to work at the Smartboard or Media:scape tables. Or just come hang out!

or in

Second Life
Writing Center

Our virtual Writing Center on the Internet in which participants interact through animated avatars. You can speak “face-to-face” with a Writing Consultant about your writing in real time through voice or text chat without ever stepping foot on UMSL’s campus! It is the ultimate convenience!

or request

Feedback
via Email

Email your paper to us through WC Online and a Consultant will comment on it through Microsoft Word’s Comment Feature, and then email the paper back to you. Easy and simple! Expect a response within 48 hours. Be sure to attach either a Word document or an RTF file so our Consultants can work with you.

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