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The English Language Support Office has created guidance for students on using generative AI so that they can take steps before and during the writing process to avoid charges of inappropriate use.
The English Language Support Office is now offering a more robust Pronunciation Tutoring Service ever, with eight peer tutors on its staff.
This semester, the English Language Support Office is introducing a tutoring service focused on using Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot).
The fall 2025 add period starts Monday, August 18 at 9:00am!
The Write Together at Home Program provides graduate students, professional students, and postdocs with community, structure, and resources to support their writing. This online program is designed to help you establish writing practices and peer writing networks that will sustain your writing throughout the summer.
The fall 2025 pre-enrollment period for graduate and professional students is right around the corner: from April 28 at 7:00am to April 30 at 11:59 pm. As you plan your fall 2025 course schedule, consider taking ELSO courses.
ELSO's Writing and Presenting and Pronunciation Tutoring services will run through spring break!
Join ELSO at the Big Red Barn for some pizza and fun before spring break!
Write with people, get work done, and get a Kung Fu bubble milk tea!
Need to get some writing done? Write-ins are a great way to move your writing project forward.
Celebrate ELSO's 10th Birthday!
Schedules for ELSO Fall 2024 Pronunciation and Writing & Presenting are now available.
Meet ELSO faculty and get your questions answered at ELSO Info Session and orientation resource fairs.
The summer Write Together at Home Program will be running again this year! The Write Together at Home Program provides graduate students, professional students, and postdocs with community, structure, and resources to support their writing. This fully online program is designed to help you establish writing practices and peer writing networks that will sustain your writing throughout the summer.
DGSs and GFAs are warmly invited to join ELSO faculty on Friday, April 26, 1:00-2:00 EDT via Zoom to learn more about ELSO services that are available to multilingual graduate and professional students.
ELSO's Writing and Presenting Tutoring service will run through Spring Break! The Pronunciation service will be closed March 31-April 7.
ELSO Senior Lecturer Melissa Myers was recognized with an Innovative Teaching Award Honorable Mention for “Creative Responses to Generative AI.”
Sign-ups for the SP24 ELSO Speaking Groups Program are open!
ELSO, in conjunction with the John S. Knight Institute, is hosting a Peer-Tutor Writing Center Conference Sunday, April 21, 2024 10:00-4:00 pm in Biotech G10.
Spring 2024 ELSO tutoring is now open
ELSO and the John S. Knight Institute will be hosting a Peer-Tutor Writing Center Conference in April 2024.
The 2023 Write Together at Home Program: Summer Writing Support for Postgraduates information and registration links are now available!
Generous donations helped raise funds for ELSO programming for multilingual domestic and international graduate and professional students.
Spring 2023 ELSO tutoring schedules are now live!
ELSO Writing and Presenting tutoring will run through finals week
Registration for the Speaking Groups Program is now open!
ELSO Tutoring Schedules for Fall 2022 are Now Open!
ELSO welcomes new students and welcomes back returning students at the start of Fall 22.
English Language Support Office (ELSO) Director Dr. Michelle Crow was presented with two awards at the 2021 International Writing Across the Curriculum (IWAC) Conference: Best Monograph and Distinguished Fellow Award.The Best Monograph Award is presented by the Association for Writing Across the Curriculum (AWAC) and the WAC Clearinghouse to an...
Cornell’s English Language Support Office (ELSO) has expanded to support all multilingual graduate students – both from the U.S. and abroad. Previously available only to international students for whom English was not their first language, now multilingual graduate and professional students from anywhere in the world can participate in ELSO...
I’m Hugo Milan, a writing and presentation tutor for international graduate students and post-docs.I am from Brazil and I started my Ph.D. in Biological Engineering in the Fall 2015. During my first semester, I started getting involved with the ELSO and never stopped.What motivated you to begin tutoring writing? My main motivation to become a...
Who are the English Language Support Office tutors? Stop by 260 Caldwell Hall, and you'll meet friendly graduate student and professional tutors from across the disciplines who are eager to meet with full-time matriculated international graduate and professional students and all post-docs meeting and to talk with them about their writing,...