Students use Starfish to connect to academic advisers, tutors, and other services that can help them meet their academic goals. Learn more about making an appointment in Starfish.
The Writing Center
Let us help you become a more effective, confident writer.
Our writing tutors meet students where they are and provide non-judgmental, individualized one-on-one writing consultations. We see writing as a process and provide writing support for the brainstorming stage up through editing the final draft.
A typical session for writing support varies and is dependent on what the writer would like to work on, but sessions are always driven by academic support that strives to give each writer encouragement and confidence in using their voice to become a better writer.
Our writing consultants can work with you on a wide variety of projects and papers for any discipline.
The Writing Center provides the following assistance for all students:
brainstorming, outlining, and prewriting
sentence and paragraph concerns (structure, clarity, organization, etc.)
citing sources (APA, MLA, etc.)
integrating quotations into papers
editing drafts of assignments
grammar and punctuation concerns
scholarship or graduate school applications and essays
presentations, PowerPoints, reports, group projects, and speeches
How to Get Writing Support
Taking a course and need writing assistance? The Writing Center has you covered!
We offer tutoring appointments in person and online. You can schedule an appointment to meet with a writing tutor through Starfish.
Log in to Starfish.
In the top left corner, click the drop-down menu.
Click on My Success Network.
Click Schedule on Scranton - Writing.
You will see appointment times available for writing tutoring.
Select the desired appointment day and time.
Click Continue.
Click Confirm.
You will receive an appointment confirmation in your Penn State email.
We greatly appreciate the support from faculty and staff! Students often take advantage of services based on recommendations from the campus community. Use the form below to refer a student to our services. Once you have submitted the form, a member of our staff will follow up with this student to offer assistance.
The Writing Center staff can visit your class or student group to explain our services, lead an academic workshop, or assist with a peer review day. Submit online form to request a visit from the Learning and Writing Center.
