For Faculty

The WORD Studio offers a 10-minute informational presentation about the WORD Studio and our services. Our presentation is especially useful to your students if you require tutorials for an assignment. Please complete this form to request a classroom visit. 

The WORD Studio offers a range of writing workshops specifically designed to support faculty and students. These interactive sessions cover crucial writing skills like APA, MLA, and Chicago formatting, source integration, outlining strategies, and even working with AI writing tools (GenAI). See a list of our workshops and links to slides from previous workshops.

Workshops are limited to one per faculty member per semester and require a simple online form submission two weeks in advance. 

In the WORD Studio, we believe communication, learning, and learning to effectively communicate, both orally and in writing, are processes, and students require feedback from readers, listeners, and professors to reach their full potential. Though artificial intelligence (AI) tools are rapidly evolving to generate text and feedback, we hold firm in the knowledge that one-to-one dialogue, like that provided in the WORD Studio, is a valuable way to cognitively model elements of the communication and learning process. 

However, the WORD Studio recognizes that GenAI is already a part of our daily lives and that students will use these tools in their classes and assignments. Because of this reality, the WORD Studio is ready to work with students and GenAI in a variety of ways to assist students in their journey to becoming better communicators and learners.

Please view our full policy here.

Feel free to copy and paste this statement directly into your syllabus; you can also make minor changes to reflect your writing style.

The WORD Studio offers in-person, one-to-one tutorials for your papers, speeches, posters, and reading assignments. Tutors, who come from a variety of majors, minors, and backgrounds, are thoroughly trained and friendly peers who can do the following:

• Help you understand an assignment
• Help you build an argument or structure in papers and oral presentations
• Help you expand your vocab and work on sentence structure
• Work with you on a PowerPoint or poster
• Refine your reading skills
• Help you learn to avoid plagiarism through proper citation
• Navigate different genres and disciplinary expectations
• Work responsibility and ethically with GenAI (please read the Studio’s GenAI Statement)

The WORD Studio is an intentionally antiracist, anti-ableist, and neurodivergent friendly space that embraces all linguistic varieties and learning styles. 

Our friendly, conversational tutorials can be up to 45 minutes in length. Visit our Starfish to view our hours and make an appointment. If you have any questions about our services, please email us at wordstudio@stlawu.edu   

If you require appointments, please consider having students fill out this worksheet before and after the tutorial so that they are focused and engaged during the tutorial.