Michigan State University Writing Center

The Writing Center has taken upon itself the ambitious task of creating a culture of writing and continuous inquiry in the university and the communities it serves. Taking advantage of the opportunities that exist when individuals with different but related goals teach and learn from one another for their mutual benefit, The Writing Center has developed a practice we call consultative teaching. A combination of collaborative learning, peer tutoring, service-learning, student research, and jointly-conducted student-faculty research, the practice of consultative teaching recognizes students as knowledgeable individuals with valuable ideas and experiences to contribute to the learning situation, teachers as model students committed to learning for and with their students, and both students and teachers as learners responsible for sharing their developing understandings and talents with one another and with the broader community.