The mission of the Academic Writing Center at RCC is to provide writing support to all students who seek it, to be a resource for faculty who wish to use writing in their classrooms, and to be a source of life-long learning for the wider community.

Our view that writing is an expression of thinking that is facilitated by collaborative dialogue informs the way our staff is trained and the way our services are delivered. It is our goal to help students become more confident, comfortable and effective writers. To that end we treat each person as a unique individual with a story to tell in a unique voice.

Through their interactions with our professional staff and student tutors, students will participate in open dialogues about their own individual writing issues.

Writing is a complex process that benefits from consistent feedback. Therefore, we encourage students to seek consultations at any of the following points where the process becomes difficult for them: understanding the assignment, generating ideas, crafting a thesis, drafting, organizing, revising, addressing issues of sentence structure, grammar and punctuation, or documenting sources. We try to forge intellectual partnerships to work on specific assignments, to increase confidence and improve overall writing performance. We believe that it is important to be good listeners, sensitive to the student’s needs, and to develop a rapport that will create an atmosphere of mutual respect.