International Student Services

The Writing and Academic Resource Center is open to all Emerson College students, and the Center is ready to assist undergraduate and graduate students who are non-native speakers of English. The WARC does not offer ESL courses; however, our staff is trained to work individually with international students on developing language, academic, and cultural skills that enhance performance in the classroom.

Our services are one-on-one, private, supportive, and free of charge. If this is your first visit to the WARC, or if you have questions about our services, please feel free to make an appointment with Linda Miller, Coordinator of Academic Support Services for International Students. Please call 617-824-7874 to make an appointment.

Writing tutorials

The Writing Center provides a variety of personalized writing services for students whose first language is not English. Our tutors work with students individually on all phases of the reading and writing process. Many students come to the Writing Center because they wish to have a tutor go over a paper and point out problems with grammar and vocabulary. Writing Center tutors do not simply edit papers however; they try to help students recognize error patterns to aid in self correction.

In addition, tutors will help students brainstorm ideas for a paper and outline major points, refine a thesis statement, organize content, work on integrating resource material into a research paper and documenting the source correctly, and write introductions and conclusions. Of course, the student is responsible for writing his or her own paper. The tutor makes suggestions that may help the paper become rhetorically and grammatically consistent with one written by a native speaker.