The Writing Center's Mission and Goals
Our Mission
Our primary mission is to help MSU Denver students become more confident writers by developing healthy writing processes and a broad repertoire of writing strategies. We also support MSU Denver faculty, alumni, and community members who want to become more confident writers.
Our Goals
- Welcome all MSU Denver writers, writing at any level, and any stage, in any discipline, and composing any genre.
- Promote writing as a thinking tool.
- Recognize language and writing as sites of institutionalized racism, patriarchy, and other forms of oppression, and contribute to the deconstruction of these oppressive systems.
- Deepen students’ understanding of how they learn best.
- Help writers develop transferable writing skills, including drafting, revising, editing, content development, and source use, through metacognitive reflection.
- Help students understand and negotiate expectations for academic, professional and disciplinary writing.
- Foster understanding and acceptance of diverse identities, cultures, viewpoints, and linguistic backgrounds.
- Support instructors in developing writing assignments that are informed by current writing theory and research and reflect an inclusive, anit-racist lens.
- Encourage, support, sponsor and participate in writing research.
- Practice methods and strategies informed by current theory and research.
- Mentor undergraduate writing consultants and interns.
Outcomes
By working with the Writing Center, students can expect to…
- Use writing as a thinking and communication tool.
- Recognize that every piece of writing has a purpose and an audience.
- Use multiple revision strategies at various points in their writing process.
- Use resources appropriately.
- Use invention strategies as part of their writing process.
- Make appropriate rhetorical choices about thesis, development, organization, and style by considering the purpose and audience of a piece of writing.
- Demonstrate a growth mindset toward writing.
- Advocate for the use of their own voice in writing assignments.
- Demonstrate that they understand that writing is a process.
