Center for Writing Excellence

David Bockino, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, penned his first book, “The Guidebook Experiment: Discovering Exploration in a Hyper-Connected World,” examining how the proliferation of guidebook material has fundamentally altered the nature of travel. 

All three of our locations are open and ready to help you with all of your assignments!

The Center for Writing Excellence would like to invite you to submit your new, or tried and true, writing assignments to the Writing Center's Anonymous Assignment Feedback program.

With the new school year underway, the Center for Writing Excellence is excited to be able to share our upcoming Fall Writing Boot Camp dates!

Jessalynn Strauss, an assistant professor in the School of Communications, wrote her first book, "Challenging Corporate Social Responsibility: Lessons for public relations from the casino industry," demonstrating the paradoxes in contemporary corporate social responsibility through the example of the gambling industry.

In an open letter to presidential hopefuls, Professor Rosemary Haskell uses literature and knowledge of her native Great Britain to make the case for American policymakers treating firearms as a public health issue.

If you're planning one final trip to the shore before the arrival of autumn, Associate Professor Jeffrey S. Coker has data and perspective about the "summer of the shark" that he shares in a guest column published by several regional newspapers.

Associate Professor Tom Nelson shared the tragic story of the USS Indianapolis, which was torpedoed 70 years ago this summer near the end of World War II, in a guest column published by several regional newspapers.

The Center for Writing Excellence is offering our first Summer Writing Boot Camp on Tuesday, August 11, from 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. in Oaks 212.

Elon University's Brooke Barnett and Randy Williams offered wisdom and advice in a newspaper guest column for how people can start conversations about race.