Multiliteracy Centers

After discussing in class the vast amount of literacy expanding in our society, I find the idea of a mutliliteracy center appropriate for MSU. When I took an introductory web authoring class here at MSU, I struggled learning the CSS and HTML formats. I was able to catch on after a little help from the professor, but having somewhere else on campus to turn to for consulting would have helped me a great deal. There are many students interesting in graphic design and digital rhetoric who could also use consulting. MSU offers the Professional Writing program that covers many of these other literacies. If the University offers this kind of program then there is a good amount of students who may need help in areas outside of the basic sense of writing, such as papers and essays.

In order to have a center that helped with web authoring and other professional writing and digital concerns there needs to be more support from the University. If students were aware they could join the staff to consult in these areas, I'm sure some would be very interested. I guess I look at the situation as one where helping students shouldn't be limited when possible. Expanding the Writing Center to help these areas would only be beneficial. But expanding our Writing Center can only be done with the help of experienced student and faculty. I think it is a great task the Writing Center should consider over the next few years. Michigan State University could be one of the next leading multiliteracy centers.