Writing Center
The Writing Center is committed to advancing the culture of writing at SUA through the promotion of student-centered learning. Our mission is to help students discover effective writing, argumentation, and revision strategies through critical inquiry and effective communication.
What We Offer
Individual Tutoring Sessions
We help students with every aspect of writing, at any stage in the writing process: choosing a topic, organizing content, brainstorming, developing a thesis, writing a rough draft, revising sentences and paragraphs, and citing sources appropriately.
Group Workshops
We provide a range of services including individualized tutoring sessions, Capstone support, and group workshops. We also offer in-class workshops tailored around specific prompts as requested by faculty.
Events
We host writing-related events throughout the year including poetry workshops, guest speakers, and creative writing opportunities. In previous years, our poetry speakers series have been sponsored by grants from the Poets & Writers Foundation. Our poetry series has featured Safiya Sinclair, Claudia Rankine, Jos Charles, and others. We have also co-hosted the queer poetry collective Dark Matter.
Debate Team
In 2018, the Writing Center became the home of the Soka University Debate Team. The Debate Team competes regionally in the British Parliamentary Style Debate format.
Podcast Workshops
We also offer tutorial sessions in planning your podcasts and host workshops in which we explore podcasting as an effective communication tool.
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Meet the Writing Center Staff
Meet our staff of professional Writing Specialists and undergraduate and graduate program Writing Fellows.
Resources for Students
In addition to the services we offer students while inside the Writing Center, we also host a collection of electronic resources which students may access at any time.
Soka’s library, the Daisaku and Kaneko Ikeda Library, has many resources for Soka students.
- City University of New York’s Write Site
- University of Toronto: Advice on Academic Writing
- Harvard College Writing Center: Strategies for Essay Writing
- Anglia Ruskin University: A Helpful Guide to Essay Writing
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Writing Center Handouts
- University of Wisconsin: The Writer’s Handbook
Learning Outcomes
- To gain an understanding of writing as a process that usually requires multiple drafts
- To gain rhetorical knowledge of how to write for different audiences, situations, and purposes
- To gain the ability to address local and global level issues involved in writing
- To gain confidence in completing a range of writing tasks
Student Testimonial
Thank you so much for taking the time out of your busy schedule to help me to revise my [graduate school] application essays.
Contact Us
Location: Ikeda 214
Phone: (949) 480-4060
Email: writingcenter@soka.edu
Hours of Operation: Monday - Friday 9 am - 7 pm and Sundays 11 am - 7 pm.