At Coastline, writing is at the center.
At the Writing Center, we help you strengthen your writing and communication skills by providing resources, workshops, and individual support for all kinds of assignments and projects that require writing for all your Coastline courses.
When you click "Enter the Writing Center," you will:
Hours for all Coastline students:
Need help with correct comma usage? Come to our Comma Clinic, a thirty-minute mini-workshop on commas that repeats each Wednesday from 5 - 5:30pm via Zoom in the Coastline Writing Center. To join, enroll in the free Writing Center Canvas shell as outlined above.
Questions? Email Professor Oceana Callum.
The heart of the Writing Center is the one-on-one consultation. Writers from all disciplines and levels are welcome to drop-in with one of our Writing Center Instructors who can help at any stage of the process - from idea, to draft, to revision. You'll begin your free online consultation (up to 30-minutes) by identifying goals for the session. You may want to focus on:
Once your goals are clear, you and the Writing Center Instructor will work together to explore possibilities. Although collaborative, at no time does the Writing Center Instructor take over authorship of your work. Many writers come in just to explore their ideas with an attentive, sympathetic audience.
If this is your first visit to the Writing Center, be sure to read What to Expect in Consultation Guidelines.
Make the Most of Your CWC Consultation
Excelling in written and oral communication is hard work, but it can be fun and rewarding. We look forward to working with you!
Individual help with your writing or oral communication questions - performance anxiety, writer's block, research methods, organization, revision strategies, proper format, etc.
Assistance at any stage, from generating ideas to polishing a final project, and any type of writing assignment.
Guidance in building and improving your own writing, editing, and revising skills.
An editing service where you sit back and relax while a consultant does the writing or organizes your draft for you. We want to help you work independently to become your own best editor.
Omniscient and infallible consultants; however, what we don't know, we'll try to find out.
A perfect paper or project. One session is not enough time to address every problem or issue. The real goal of the consultation is to help you become a better writer, communicator, and problem-solver, a process that happens gradually.
Beginning Spring 2023, in addition to consultations, we will also offer: Directed Learning Activities, Appointments, and Workshops. Enter the Writing Center for a consultation or contact us for more information. We look forward to working with you!