We have seen a growing concern among faculty about their students' writing abilities. Their concern is about students' use of writing to learn the subject matter of the courses, and also about the writing they will be doing on the job after they graduate. We have also seen a growing realization that English 101 and 102 are just a beginning, and that students' education as writers must continue and be reinforced in other classes. Fully half of writing center visits are about writing done in classes other than composition.
Students come from almost every major on campus.
So, since many of your students are using the writing center on the assignments you give them, we would like to describe the kind of help they get there. Anyone should use the center, strong writers as well as weaker writers. You need to go to the Writing Center. Their intentions are good, and we appreciate their sending business our way. But they are reinforcing an antiquated image of writing centers that hasn't existed in reality for about 20 years.