Writing Center
Online Writing Center coaching sessions are offered Monday though Friday, and in-person coaching sessions are held in the Brunswick campus library several times during the week. Please click on the “Writing Center Hours” button above for specific information about the schedule and accessing our services.
The Writing Center’s Guiding Principles:
- Develop the writer, not just the paper.
- Stephen North, a famous Writing Center scholar, said our job as Writing Center teachers is to “produce better writers, not better writing.” If the writer improves, the paper follows.
- Even the best athletes need coaches.
- The students who work at the Writing Center are called coaches. We believe that “coach” and “coaching” are good descriptions for our role. Even the strongest Olympic athletes need coaches to provide perspective and an outside opinion.
- Knowledge is fundamentally social.
- We encourage an environment of active, collaborative learning that occurs outside the classroom. Our coaching sessions are not passive. Writers are expected to participate in the co-construction of their learning.
Contact Information:
Dr. Jennifer Gray
Writing Center Coordinator
Education
Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with Composition and Rhetoric Specialization, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
M.A. in English, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
B.A. in English, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia
Teaching and Research Interests / Recent Publications or Scholarly Output
Dr. Jennifer P. Gray is a professor of English and the creator and director of the Writing Center at the College of Coastal Georgia. She has taught writing courses for more than 20 years. Jennifer has authored or co-authored over 30 articles focused on either composition pedagogy or writing center practices, and she has presented at over 75 conferences. Her most advanced active research project is a collaboration between four compositionists across two institutions and focuses on college faculty experiences with plagiarism and AI within writing-intensive courses. Her other active research projects focus on procrastination in writing classes and the use and revision of weak mentor texts to help students effectively learn about citation and AI use. Jennifer is the Vice-Chair of the College’s Institutional Review Board, and she was a former Executive Committee member for the respected Conference on College Composition and Communication. She is also a Teacher Consultant (TC) for the National Writing Project.