TABLE OF CONTENTS
OUR YEAR IN BRIEF:
No time for a full read right now?
Please enjoy this "long-story-short" summary of our year by the numbers:
+ We increased our outreach presentations by 122%.
+ We expanded our graduate programming with weekly and monthly writing groups, four new workshops and three Dissertation Accelerators.
+ We reached 31% more English 1000 students.
+ We supported over 12,600 students via tutoring, training or outreach.
WELCOME!
Our assignment: Write, in approximately two paragraphs, the most important things that happened during the last year. [Editor's note: They did not, in fact, write two paragraphs.]
Our response: What a year! While we began this year with growth in mind—spoilers: see below—our outcomes far out-distanced our goals! At the end of Summer ‘23, we knew a few things: we would celebrate TONY (the Online Writery)’s 30th anniversary, we would conduct an External Review, hosting fantastic writing center colleagues from the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and our full-time staff and graduate programming would grow with the additions of Nate Fackler as a Graduate Writing Consultant (page 16) and Dr. Bailey Boyd taking on the coordination of Graduate Writing events in collaboration with the Graduate School (pages 11-12).
As we set goals for the year, we sought to connect the WC more closely to the English department’s composition program, formally inviting all first-year students in English 1000(H) to use our services during their first year. Setting that goal resulted in even more outreach presentations and fairs (page 7) and amazing growth in both contacts from that course and overall usage from individual students (page 5). While that goal was connected to students taking their first steps on our campus, our graduate writing events were supporting students as they finished their academic journeys. We hosted weekly, week-long and workshop-based events for graduate students, in addition to our long-standing one-on-one support (page 11).
We also endured the (unfortunately) cyclical nature of wishing our tremendously successful graduates well (pages 20-21) with tearful last shifts, senior soirées and award presentations. Rather than continue to “lose touch” with our grads, we’re looking toward our burgeoning WC alumni project and the celebration of our 50th anniversary in ‘26 to continue to grow our connections between tutors, old and new.
Bailey Boyd, Ph.D
Assistant Director
Aaron Harms, Ph.D Director
OUR MISSION
CONTACTS AT THE WC
We measure our overall impact at the Writing Center in "contacts." Each contact represents a 15- to 50-minute interaction between a tutor and a student, whether in a tutoring, outreach or training capacity.
12,632: Total Contacts
M AY YOU NEVER WRITE ALONE.
11,933 : Tutoring Contacts
292 : Outreach Contacts
The Writing Center at the University of Missouri supports undergraduate, graduate and professional students, staff and faculty on any writing task, at any point in the writing process. Our well-trained, near-peer staff provide a collaborative, holistic approach via both synchronous and asynchronous modalities to support tutees of any writing background on their individual writing journeys.
407 : Tutor Training Contacts
HOW ARE WE SUPPORTING INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS?
This year, we tutored over 3,900 undergraduate students. Each student visited the Writing Center with specific goals and left with personalized feedback. There is a writer, a tutor and a story behind each statistic.
44% of undergraduate tutees returned to the WC 21% were first-generation college students 17% of the total undergraduate student body visited
Students find the Writing Center at different points in their academic careers. One of the ways we continue to evaluate our work is by when those interactions occur. We define the groups below by what type of degree the student is currently pursuing, and for undergraduates specifically, how many credit hours they have completed when they use our services.
8,786
2,974
165
CONTACTS
1,315 1,899 1,649 3,686
OUTREACH
Since 1994, the Writing Center’s Online Writery has been available to users 24/7/365 for asynchronous submissions, typically providing responses within 24-48 hours. During the fall, spring and summer semesters, we offer 50-minute, in-person synchronous appointments from the first day of classes through finals week, typically Sunday through Friday.
Our Writing Center Outreach team saw immense growth and helped many new students and faculty this year, through in-class presentations, workshops and tabling events. Each presentation explained how, when and where students can access tutoring services. We increased our outreach presentations by 122% from Spring 2023 to Spring 2024.
122%
We connected with over 2,000 first-year and transfer students at the Welcome Week events.
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STUDENT FEEDBACK
Students are invited to complete surveys after their tutoring sessions so we can constantly evaluate and strengthen our services. You can read our questions and their answers below:
Of students would recommend the Writing Center to a friend
'' Would you recommend the WC to a friend?
"Yes, I already did! I like how they are willing to help you with any stage of the process and give encouraging practical advice."
"Yes, in general it is a great service for non-English speakers, and it gives great feedback from a person not in your field."
"Yes, 100%. My tutor helped me work through the problems I was facing and made sure not to steer the conversation, but rather to promote thinking and lay things out in a different way."
"Absolutely yes. The person helping me was FANTASTIC."
"I would totally recommend the WC services to a friend! I was stuck on a paper due that night and couldn’t get past my own writer’s block with the discussion. Visiting the WC helped me organize my thoughts so I could complete the paper. I finished writing soon after visiting with the help of the reverse outline and brainstorming sheet."
"Yes because everyone who works there is really cool, and I always end up fixing something that I wouldn't have noticed on my own."
"Yes, the service is pretty good for international and foreign students."
"I definitely would. I received great and concise feedback that was very helpful and insightful to someone who hasn't taken many writing courses. Getting it back in about 24 hours was also very helpful and quick and it wasn't so long that I forgot what I wrote. It is an amazing service I will tell my class and friends to use the service."
"I absolutely would. I had an amazing experience that made me feel so much better about my writing and how I'm more prepared to send my grad school applications off."
'' Please describe one aspect of your tutoring session that was particularly helpful:
"I learned a trick with active v. passive voice that will help me in the future."
"It being read aloud was really helpful for me so that I could better hear the flow of my paper, and made it significantly easier to find where my word choice wasn't great or had typos."
"Providing valuable suggestions on my wording and word choice. They are a careful reader."
"Critiques well balanced with compliments and ideas were given in an interactive/constructive way"
"Literally everything."
"My tutor and I would make a modification, reread the section, and if I didn't like the modification then my tutor was very supportive and helped me come up with yet another change that I did like!"
'' Additional comments or thanks to a particular tutor?
"I would like to thank Ryan for being really supportive of my writing and helping me think through complex topics. We were able to be extremely productive in the hour and revised the majority of my paper!"
"Abigail gave me great notes and was super helpful. She gave feedback that I hadn’t thought of and was very informative."
"Molly was so cheerful in text! Her feedback was well written, concise and easy to understand. Each of her suggestions were excellent and well thought out..."
"Cary’s knowledge of broad subject matter and his writing mastery made his feedback that much more valuable."
"Audrey gave such great feedback and it was really thorough..."
"Elise was amazing to work with, her suggestions were excellent and her ability to tutor and explain her thoughts was great."
"... Drew ... balanced his tutoring well by offering several fine-tuning comments and broader content suggestions. He’s an awesome tutor, especially for other tutors!"
2023-2024:
A Year of Growth at the Writing Center
Welcome to the uber-quantitative portion of the annual report! This year, we set new benchmarks across a host of areas. In the fall, we were already reporting growth in Overall Contacts (+7%), Outreach (+95%!), English 1000 (+31%), and Application Materials for undergraduates (+23%). As we finished spring and compared it to the prior year, our individual users was up 11%, users with multiple visits up another 3% and outreaches were up a whopping 122%! We ended the year having interacted with 16.9% of the undergraduate population (more on that below) and 11% of the graduate population.
While our horizon holds the goals of raising those percentages by at least 3% each, we’re absolutely pleased to have changed so many lives for MU’s students this past year.
UNDERGRADUATE SUPPORT
Since 1976, our primary goals have been to support undergraduate student writing. In ‘23-’24, support took several forms.
Thanks to continued collaborations with Ellis Library and the Honors College, we offered appointment-based options in three locations, in addition to video-based appointments and asynchronous responses. The Student Success Center is our centrally-located home to an entire buffet of campus resources, and it continues to be our primary space for tutoring and administrative offices. Students can also access our tutors in Ellis Library on Sundays and into the evenings on weeknights. Likewise, our evening hours in the Mark Twain residence hall provide another space for students to meet with a tutor, this time where they live. In the fall, our undergraduate contacts totaled 4,141, while the spring semester saw another 4,323.
GRADUATE PROGRAMMING
DISSERTATION ACCELERATION AND NAVIGATION GROUP:
We were excited to host our first three DANG events in the ‘23-’24 year, building upon the solid foundation set by the Graduate School’s Dissertation Retreats in years past. We held two week-long events in the Student Success Center (one each in January and May) and one 2-week hybrid event in the Summer of 2024.
Attendees started the week learning about reverse timelines and setting SMART goals. Throughout the week, writers had structured writing time with set breaks as well as a break for a community lunch (provided). They also heard presentations from Writing Center Staff and other campus collaborators about common patterns in graduate student writing, creative ways to remotivate themselves when the writing process gets tough, tips and tricks for communicating their research, helpful hints from the Graduate School and more!
24 avg. pages produced at the January DANG
WEEKLY GRADSWRITE GROUPS:
Spring 2024 marked the first semester that GradsWrite events were hosted by the Writing Center; again, we launched from the platform created by the MU Graduate School. Coordinated by the Writing Center’s Nate Fackler, graduate students met once per week to discuss their weekly writing groups, either in person or on Zoom. Due to participant request, these groups also continued in the “Maymester” and in Summer of 2024.
65 students in GradsWrite groups
FORMATTING WORKSHOPS:
Another first for the Writing Center this year was the creation and facilitation of the Dissertation and Thesis Formatting Workshops. These workshops walked graduate students through how to set up their thesis or dissertation document according to the Graduate School’s formatting guidelines. Each workshop provided time for Q&A, and participants walked away with a completed shell and a step-by-step reference guide for future questions. In 2023-2024, the Writing Center hosted a total of five in-person or Zoom formatting workshops.
WEEKLY DROP-IN ACCOUNTABILITY SESSIONS:
GRADUATE WRITING SUPPORT
In addition to the graduate writing group programming you read about in the previous two pages, the Writing Center continues to provide one-on-one support to graduate students, postdocs, faculty and staff in the same modalities offered to undergraduate students. These contacts are managed by the Graduate Writing Support tutors who are all post-baccalaureate tutors either working on their own graduate degrees at Mizzou (or elsewhere) or who have them in hand.
In 2023-2024, we saw over 600 individual graduate writers; we saw 50% of those writers for more than one contact.
Different from the GradsWrite events, the drop-in accountability sessions (named GradsWork in 24-25) are quiet spaces for graduate students to write, read, grade, lesson prep or do whatever needs to be done outside of their apartments or offices. We hosted these events for three hours on Tuesday nights in Fall 2023 and then moved them to Monday nights in Spring 2024 after receiving graduate student feedback. In Summer of 2024, these took place on Friday mornings. These weekly drop-in sessions averaged a little over five graduate writers per session in AY 23-24.
Once a month in fall and spring, we offered an additional session on Saturday mornings from 9 am-12 pm (again, taking a page from the Graduate School’s previously hosted Graduate Writing Retreats). These Saturday morning sessions saw larger numbers overall; we averaged almost 12 (11.8) graduate writers per Saturday.
PROFESSIONAL WRITING SUPPORT
There are a few advanced degrees at Mizzou that are professional degrees, like Law, Veterinary Medicine, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Medicine.
Students from these fields also meet with and receive feedback from Graduate Writing Support staff. We continue to support a large number of writers from Occupational and Physical Therapy fields, and in the Summer of 2024, we also collaborated with the Medical School to provide on-site graduate writing support to their medical students applying to residencies.
GRA dmin APPRECIATION
‘23-’24 was year 2 of our GRAdmin Program Pilot. This program began with three Ph.D students from different departments working at the Writing Center for 20 hours each week, splitting those hours between tutoring and administrative work. Officially, these folks hold the title of “Graduate Administrative Fellow”; we internally adopted the name "GRAdmins."
In ‘23-’24, the GRAdmin Team expanded to five, consisting of two Master's students: Gabby Rivera Kroenke from Counseling Psychology (emphasis in School Counseling, pictured with directors right) and Molly Nash from English, and three Ph.D students: Kacey Kennedy from Music Education, Audrey Florey from the School of Visual Students, Marta Watters from the School of Visual Studies. These five graduate students each took leadership of an administrative project including TAing for the course, observing tutoring appointments and giving feedback, performing observations of online tutoring responses, redesigning training materials, cohosting workshops, facilitating trainings and more.
In addition to this work, all of our GRAdmins were required to attend a series of professional development workshops that we facilitated once a month during the academic year. In ‘22-’23 these included:
+ How to Write Recommendation Letters
+ Writing Center Conferences & Scholarship
+ All About External Reviews
+ Marketing your GRAdmin Experience
+ All About University Budgets
+ Previous Writing Center Personnel Panel
GRA Dmin CELEBRATION
Two of our GRADmins graduated in May ‘24 (you can find their awards on pages 18 and 19 of this report). We’re also happy to report that as of year 2, we have a 100% job placement rate for folks who graduated with the Writing Center GRAdmin experience under their belt. That we’re proud of them is a given; that we’re excited that employers saw their skills and experiences as valuable as they are is really what we want to emphasize here. We’re so happy that others recognized these folks’ worth, warmth and wisdom!
Congrats to Molly and Kacey (pictured right)!
TRAINING NEW TUTORS
General Honors 2015HW:
“Change Lives!” Since 1995, our undergraduate tutors have begun their time at the WC with a semester-long undergraduate course. Their time in the course and then as tutors has found them changing lives (and reporting to us that their time here changed theirs). The course provides writing-intensive training across the primary genres of the work we do, with an equal amount of attention paid to polishing interpersonal skills, honing assignment analysis tools and critically reflecting on their own writing practices. It also includes a 10-week shadowing experience, allowing them to sit in on current tutors’ appointments.
Mentors and Parachutes:
"The tutor training class was not only the most fun and engaging course I’ve taken at MU but also the most welcoming environment I’ve been a part of. I consistently felt comfortable sharing my ideas and collaborating with my peers, and that’s something I tend to shy away from in other courses" (Emily Rutledge, right).
Current tutors play a huge mentorship role in training and onboarding new staff. During the course, our current tutors have their work observed a minimum of 10 times per student in the course (12-15 this year). Students write observation and reflection assignments for each one, which are de-identified and circulated back to the staff for review.
Near the end of the process, students are matched with a mentor-tutor who serves as support for the final observation, when the student takes over a session as a tutor-in-training. We affectionately refer to these roles as Parachutes, and our staff reprise them during the first weeks of new semesters, supporting Brand New Tutors as they complete onboarding tasks, conduct their first appointments and respond to Online Writery submissions. For our parachutes, this is an additional leadership opportunity, providing experience (and a resumé line). For their supervisors, it adds another level of depth to the support that we provide for all tutors we employ.
WRITING CENTER ROCKSTARS
STAFF FEATURE
This year, we welcomed Nate Fackler to our staff as a Graduate Writing Consultant.
This marks the first time in our history that a) the WC has had three full-time staff members, b) one of the staff members was dedicated solely to graduate student support and c) there was more than one guitar player on staff.
TUTOR ACHIEVEMENTS
This year, our tutors #changedlives within and beyond the Writing Center. While their resumés are impressive and their ambition is endless, we're most proud of the kind, generous people they are and inspire us to be. Still, a little recognition never hurts! Our tutors are...
LEADERS
Our tutors are presidents of Greek sororities, student organizations and even the Mizzou Billiards Club! They are eloquent speakers, Google Calendar organizers and community-makers. Many of our tutors also hold several jobs on and off-campus and train new employees in their supervisor roles.
TUTOR SPOTLIGHTS
Multiple members of our staff were featured via other Mizzou publications this past year! You can read their stories by clicking their names below!
LILY WILLIAMS: M.A. STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS
CAROLINE LYMAN: HONORS ECONOMICS & ACCOUNTANCY
M.A. ACCOUNTANCY
NATALIE GILPIN: HONORS HEALTH SCIENCES
GRADUATES
+ 2
NEW CAT PARENTS
LEARNERS
Our tutors are nerds, in the coolest, kindest way. They love to take honors and specialty classes and conduct research to continue to #changelives. Did we overuse that hastag yet? Maybe. This year, they studied in Sweden, researched political extremism, photographed the Solar Eclipse, acted in a movie and a bunch of other awesome stuff.
We're incredibly proud of all our tutors who earned their first (or second or third) degrees this year. They published dissertations, authored English, political science and creative writing theses and graduated with Master's and Doctorate degrees. One tutor's poster presentation was even accepted to the National Association of Music Education conference, and another presented at the Historians of Netherlandish Art Conference in London!
Dr. Hocks served as the Director of the Writing Lab from 1987-2007. The scholarship named in her honor is generously funded by her family and given to three tutors that best represent her primary aims as Director: face-to-face tutoring, online tutoring and public relations.
ISABELLA TROST
"Receiving the Elaine Hocks Memorial Scholarship showed me that my bosses really care about the work done by the Writing Center and the tutors who do the work. The Writing Center has always been a great place to work, but this just reinforced to me that they want to see their tutors succeed and grow. The scholarship also showed me the impact of the Writing Center, as proven by the lasting support of the Hocks family. It was so encouraging to see their continuous support of the Writing Center and that the impact Elaine Hocks made is still being felt.”
MADISON REISER
"Being a Writing Tutor was one of the most impactful experiences I was lucky enough to take part in while at Mizzou. Interacting with, supporting, and getting to know each one of my tutees was my favorite part of that experience—speaking to them about their lives, writing, and goals was a highlight in my days. The Elaine Hocks Memorial Scholarship recognizes the importance of treating every student we sit at the table with like humans and creating a safe space for them, whatever may be necessary for that. I feel incredibly honored to have received such an award and hope that I was able to impact even one tutee in the way that they, and this role, impacted me and my connections throughout my life."
MOLLY NASH
"Receiving the Elaine Hocks Memorial Scholarship meant the world to me. I've known Aaron Harms since I was a freshman, when I took the Tutoring course, and I met Bailey Boyd soon after, and I have worked with them in a variety of roles ever since. Being chosen by them for an award was the most wonderful way to end my time at the Writing Center. Further, getting to meet the Hocks family and learn more about Elaine’s devotion as Director of the Writing Center was so special, and I felt honored to be given an award in her name."
RACHEL HARPER
DISTINGUISHED TUTOR AWARD
Celebrating Our Tutors
DR. ARIEL FRIED
"The MU Writing Center provides a wonderful working environment and really emphasizes holistic, personable tutoring at the graduate and undergraduate level. I have such respect for this approach, the people I worked with, and Bailey and Aaron as directors that it really meant a lot to receive the Distinguished Tutor Award in spring of 2024. I had a very positive experience working at the Writing Center, so it was very rewarding to have that reciprocated in my final semester."
MARDI BERRYMAN
"Receiving the Distinguished Tutor award really showed me that all the work I was putting into tutoring was being seen. I truly loved tutoring and helping other students work through potential writing challenges. Knowing that other people recognized that hard work was a reminder that I was doing a good job even if there were days I may not have felt like it."
BONNIE ZELENAK
EXCELLENCE IN TUTORING AWARD
DR. KACEY KENNEDY
"The MU Writing Center is one of my very favorite places at Mizzou. Receiving this award came as a surprise, but it means the world to me that I was able to impact so many writers through our services and in such a way that honors the vision of the Writing Center founders."
TOMMY CARRICO
"As I look back on my final weeks at Mizzou, receiving the Excellence in Tutoring Award stands out as a moment of pride I'll always treasure. Working at the Writing Center gave me an opportunity to help my peers in meaingful ways, so I view this recognition as affirmation that I had succeeded in this goal."
From left: Isabella, Maddie, Molly
EXITING THE WRITING CENTER
Before our tutors leave the Writing Center to be their kind, generous selves out in the world, we ask them two final questions about the Writing Center's impact on their personal and professional lives. You can read their responses below:
'' How have you personally or professionally benefitted from working at the Writing Center?
How has this job #changedyourlife?
"As a student, the Writing Center made me a more confident and capable writer. I feel like I can accurately and adequately express myself through my writing! As a tutor, the Writing Center became a new home for me on campus. I always felt welcomed and supported. I knew that I could always go there to celebrate things or get comfort during harder times. I also love working with students and being able to play a part in helping them with their writing. I also now know what I am looking for in future working conditions/office and what I will always look for in my bosses/managers/superiors. The Writing Center is truly the standard for a workplace for me :)
"Working at the Writing Center has helped me so so much as a pretty socially anxious person. I often overthink social interactions so working at the writing center, trying to support my peers in their writing, while also acting like a normal, chill person was really hard for me at first. I've noticed a drastic difference between how I used to approach appointments, and spontaneous interactions with people in general, to the way I approach them now. I feel only excitement for appointments now, rather than overwhelming anxiety. I can't explain how much this means to me as someone who loves people and plans to be a teacher. It seems like a very small thing, but being able to be present with people in the moment instead of worrying all the time is really nice. It has also made me a way better tutor (and future teacher) I think! I feel confident in what I'm setting out to do in life and I think a large part of that is because of the Writing Center!!
"The Writing Center began #changingmylife my first semester on campus and has continued to impact my experience, nearly five years later. ...As a tutor, I could learn new ideas and topics from my peers via Zoom and the Online Writery. There are benefits to being a remote tutor, but my favorite work was in-person sessions. You learn how to read people, better understand their motives and navigate interpersonal relationships. I’ll continue introducing the status essay to every new company I join :). One of my fondest memories was nursing application season. I had at least 4 weekly appointments dedicated to cover letters and resumes.
With multiple roommates applying, these were some of my first in-person appointments since the pandemic. You rarely get to hear back from your tutees on the results of their application. However, I heard from and celebrated the 19 tutees accepted into the program. I became progressively busier during my undergraduate degree, but the Writing Center was always there. ... Aaron and Bailey are their tutor’s biggest cheerleaders and some of the closest adults I had to family on campus. They made Mizzou feel like home, and made the Writing Center my favorite place to visit. Not to mention, Aaron Harms has set the highest (almost impossible) standard of what I expect from future employers and the workplace. He is the smartest, most humble leader I’ve had the pleasure of looking up to and it’s amazing to see his continued impact on others. These experiences, people and opportunities cannot even begin to encompass the many ways the Writing Center has #changedmylife, you’ll just have to take my word for it.
"I honestly realized how much I can actually help people! It was really incredible to see things clicking into place for tutees. I also wasn't 100% confident with my ability to write at the collegiate level, but going through the class and working as a tutor proved my skills to me. It's also been incredible to be exposed to so many different kinds of academic writing. I love learning and I truly learned something every day when I was tutoring. confidence in my own writing abilities and my abilities to help others holistically, not just temporarily. When I was a tutor
+"(The Writing Center) taught me how to meet complete strangers where they are in the writing process and in life in general. I feel the Writing Center has given me a tremendous foundation for what lies ahead."
"As a
tutor, the Writing Center became a new home for
me on campus. I always felt welcomed and supported."
+"I feel that I gained a lot of great skills through my time as a tutor. Tutoring has definitely improved my writing skills on multiple fronts, as I have to understand HOCs and how to explain them/why they are necessary. However, I think I've also really improved my interpersonal skills. I have tutored many different types of people with many different attitudes. And my own mood and attitude has varied throughout sessions. I would say that tutoring has taught me patience working with other people, and how to explain concepts without being condescending.
"Ways the Writing Center helped me: 1. The WC helped me reckon with my social anxiety. Being scheduled to communicate with people either in-person or virtually through Tony for 7-9 hours a week was great exposure therapy. 2. All of the people who work at the Writing Center are fantastic people. The bosses are empathetic and understanding, and all my coworkers would bend over backwards to help me if they could, and I would do the same for them. The Writing Center has an atmosphere with a whole lot of love and understanding. 3. Writing tutoring also provided me with a whole bunch of different approaches to writing that I never would have considered. I've come into content with long-form fiction pieces; short, inconceivably dense science abstracts; and an innumerable amount of the staple assignments of every English 1000 course. This allowed me to meet with writers of different skill levels, foci, and concerns along with the freedom to not have to nitpick grammar (because the WC is not a grammar garage). 4. Big takeaway about writing: it isn't precious. Yeah, writing is fantastic and invaluable, but it's for a function and a purpose, something to be used and not put up on a pedestal.
"I will take away many things from this job, but there are a few skills in particular that I feel will be the most beneficial for the future. First, it greatly helped my writing skill. I was awarded multiple scholarships during the last year, as well as being accepted into the TIPS program at the Thompson Center and being offered a place in the Mizzou Forward program for research. I vehemently believe that without the Writing Center, my writing would not be at the level needed to be awarded these opportunities. Second, it taught me how to meet complete strangers where they are in the writing process and in life in general. This skill will be built on for the rest of my career in the field of psychology, but I feel the Writing Center has given me a tremendous foundation for what lies ahead. Finally, the Writing Center gave me relationships with Aaron, Bailey, and other tutors that will last for the rest of my time at Mizzou and beyond. These relationships were much needed during a rough transition period for me, and they helped me more than you will ever know.
SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!