Faculty Resources

Syllabus Statement

Feel free to include the statement below in your syllabus to make your students aware of the Research & Writing Center and its resources:

The BYU Research & Writing Center (3340 HBLL) is a valuable, free resource where trained undergraduate consultants provide individualized assistance on assignments at any stage of the research and writing process. Consultants aim to help you meet assignment expectations, answer questions, and increase your skills and confidence in research and writing. Before visiting, familiarize yourself with the RWC’s services and resources. When visiting, bring whatever materials will help the consultant best help you, including your assignment description, feedback from your instructor or TA, specific questions, and related materials.

Writing Center Representatives

Do you encourage or incentivize students to visit the RWC as part of a writing assignment? If so, you might be interested in connecting your class with a Writing Center Representative.

Writing Center Representatives (WCRs) are experienced consultants who assist faculty and the RWC by offering both professors and students insight into writing center pedagogy and the RWC’s resources. WCRs can help prepare professors, students, and RWC consultants by

1. meeting with you, the professor, to discuss your assignment, including any course-specific or genre-specific expectations;
2. writing and distributing a “course memo,” including a summary of your assignment expectations and, if possible, an annotated assignment prompt and sample paper;
3. visiting your class to answer questions and introduce students to the RWC.

Interested in connecting with a Writing Center Rep? If so, fill out the form below. If you have questions, feel free to send an email.

Course-Embedded Consultants

Course-Embedded Consultants (CECs) are experienced writing tutors who are assigned to a specific course to help students throughout the entire semester on their writing projects.

CECs typically

1. attend class to learn the course material and to understand course needs and expectations
2. provide extensive writing assistance on all writing assignments, including helping students during the prewriting, drafting, and revising stages
3. hold face-to-face consultations with each student, offering formative and specific feedback on analysis, synthesis, thesis, organization, evidence, format, grammar, etc.
4. support professors unable to dedicate significant time to writing instruction by running writing workshops outside of class, holding periodic office hours, and creating writing-specific resources for students (handouts, examples, etc.)

Overall, CECs hope to improve writing across the curriculum by helping faculty carry out writing assignments and by providing students with careful, constructive, and supportive assistance throughout the writing process.

Assignment Bank Submission

The Assignment Bank is for faculty who would like to share their assignment prompts, rubrics, or example papers with RWC consultants for reference.

Extra Help for a Student

If you are a faculty member or advisor working with a student who needs extra writing support, consider directing the student to the RWC's paired tutoring program. Students who fill out the sign-up form below will be paired with a writing tutor who meets with them weekly throughout the semester or term. Working towards the student's writing-related goals, the tutor will support the student with their writing assignments at every stage of the writing process.

Examples of students who might benefit from paired tutoring include the following:

• Students with anxiety related to writing
• Students working towards a specific writing goal or large project (capstone, Honors thesis, etc.)
• Returning or non-traditional students
• Students with learning disabilities
• Students with extenuating circumstances who need help catching up in their writing courses
• Students who speak English as a second language or are otherwise multilingual*

*ESL/multilingual students can receive course credit for participating in a version of paired tutoring called the Writing Tutorial for Multilingual Students. For more information, click here.

Students can sign up for paired tutoring at any point during the semester. After submitting the form, the student will be contacted by the RWC to coordinate the paired tutoring schedule.

For more information, contact Katie Watkins (katie_watkins@byu.edu, 801-422-9784). Click the button below for the sign-up form:

Resources for Faculty

Faculty and staff writers are welcome to use Research & Writing Center services in addition to other on-campus programs designed to assist faculty with writing, editing, and teaching. Some additional resources are listed below:

• Assignment Bank Submission
• Writing Across the Curriculum
• University Writing
• Faculty Publishing Service
• Center for Teaching & Learning
• Resources for ESL & Multilingual Writing