The SSC Writing Center

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The SSC Writing Center No matter the kind of writing, we're here to help! We have two locations (Main Campus and Akron), so you can choose the best one for your schedule.

We also offer online tutoring! Go here to sign up for a session: https://stark.mywconline.com/ WC Guidelines
"For excellence, the presence of others is always required." – Hannah Arendt

Students will/can…
1. Engage in active collaboration with writing assistants for writing-related concerns.
2. Collaborate with a writing assistant to learn how to edit and proofread independently.
3. Display respectful behavior at all times, including limiting use of cell phones during tutoring sessions to emergencies only.
4. Consult with available writing assistants for up to a half hour two times a day if progress has been made on a draft or if a second piece of writing will be discussed.*
5. Reschedule their appointments if they are more than five minutes late.
6. Receive a receipt for participating in a session.
7. Use the computers or an available table in the writing center for up to an hour before or after their sessions as space permits.**
8. Understand that grades are given by instructors, not writing assistants.


*Writing assistants can end a session that is running beyond the scheduled time or when the session has ceased to be fruitful. During the COVID pandemic, in-person sessions are restricted to 15 minutes, once per day.

**During the COVID pandemic, students are unfortunately not permitted to use the writing center computers before or after tutoring sessions. Hopefully we'll be back to normal soon!

Today we celebrate the birth of English author John Le Carré, who is perhaps best known for his spy thrillers featuring ...
10/19/2026

Today we celebrate the birth of English author John Le Carré, who is perhaps best known for his spy thrillers featuring George Smiley. Le Carré worked for British intelligence agencies MI5 and MI6 and released his first novel in the 1960s. Several of his works have been adapted to film.

Happy birthday, Elizabeth F. Ellet! Born October 18, 1818, Ellet was a writer, historian and poet. She’s most famous for...
10/18/2026

Happy birthday, Elizabeth F. Ellet! Born October 18, 1818, Ellet was a writer, historian and poet. She’s most famous for writing about the lives and accomplishments of early American women, published in The Women of the American Revolution, Pioneer Women of the West and The Queens of American Society, to name a few.

Arthur Miller was born today in 1915. Miller’s works often address themes of morality and the American Dream. This great...
10/17/2026

Arthur Miller was born today in 1915. Miller’s works often address themes of morality and the American Dream. This great American playwright is best known for his plays, Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, as well as for being married to Marilyn Monroe!

10/16/2026
Today is Oscar Wilde’s birthday! The son of a doctor and a poet, Wilde studied at Oxford and traveled to New York City t...
10/16/2026

Today is Oscar Wilde’s birthday! The son of a doctor and a poet, Wilde studied at Oxford and traveled to New York City to embark on an American lecture series. The author, playwright, and poet is best known for The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Ernest, and A Woman of No Importance.

Virgil – full name, Publius Vergilius Maro – was inarguably the most popular poet in ancient Rome. He’s best known for w...
10/15/2026

Virgil – full name, Publius Vergilius Maro – was inarguably the most popular poet in ancient Rome. He’s best known for writing The Aeneid, an epic about the fall of Troy, the escape and journeys of Aeneas, and his eventual landing in Italy, where he founded the city of Rome.

The quote in our graphic is from Virgil’s Eclogues, a series of poems about shepherds and love, and translates to “Poems can even pull the moon from the sky!”

Happy birthday to the poet e.e. cummings. The modernist poet was one-of-a-kind and constantly pushed the bounds of accep...
10/14/2026

Happy birthday to the poet e.e. cummings. The modernist poet was one-of-a-kind and constantly pushed the bounds of accepted and expected poetry norms.

Feeling stuck on your writing assignments? Don’t forget to visit us in the Stark State Writing Center! We can help with ...
10/13/2026

Feeling stuck on your writing assignments? Don’t forget to visit us in the Stark State Writing Center! We can help with any writing assignment. We are located in room G200A (main campus) or A010 (Akron Campus). We have online and in-person appointments available. Stop in and/or make an appointment online. https://stark.mywconline.com/

Petry became widely known when her 1946 novel, The Street, became the first novel by a Black female author to sell over ...
10/12/2026

Petry became widely known when her 1946 novel, The Street, became the first novel by a Black female author to sell over a million copies. She was best known for her depiction of relationships and the struggle to find community.
As this quote from "The Street" shows, some things never change…

Did you grow up in a place that celebrates Casimir Pulaski? Or maybe you’ve never heard his name…Pulaski led an attempte...
10/11/2026

Did you grow up in a place that celebrates Casimir Pulaski? Or maybe you’ve never heard his name…

Pulaski led an attempted revolution in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth before fleeing to Western Europe and then to the American Colonies after meeting Ben Franklin.

He is also considered a hero of the American Revolution and was responsible for forming the first American Cavalry. Pulaski even saved the life of George Washington, but tragically died fighting near Savannah, Georgia.

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Wednesday 9am - 11pm
Thursday 9am - 11pm
Friday 10am - 11pm
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