Meet ELSO teachers!
Meet ELSO teachers during an ELSO information session or at Resource Fair for Graduate and Professional Students.
Join the Write Together at Home Program!
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.
Fall 2026 Pre-enrollment April 22-24
The fall 2026 pre-enrollment period for graduate and professional students is happening April 22 at 7:30am to April 24 at 11:59 pm. As you plan your fall 2026 course schedule, consider taking ELSO courses. In fall 2026, ELSO is offering the following classes:
Take a Break with ELSO April 30!
Celebrate the end of the year and Take a Break with ELSO Thursday, April 30 at 4:30-6:30 in the Big Red Barn. Join us for pizza, games, prizes, and relax with friends, new and old!
IGPS Karaoke Night
Join the International Graduate and Professional Student Organzation (IGPS) for Karaoke night, Thursday March 26 7:30-9:30pm at Lot 10!
ELSO Workshop: 2026 Spring Cornell Career Fair Days Friday March 6
ELSO's next workshop, 2026 Spring Cornell Career Fair Days, is Friday, March 6 from 2:30-4:00 pm in Caldwell Hall room 250. Come early for coffee, tea, and snacks!
Clearer Pronunciation with Clearer Vowels Workshop February 20
ELSO's next workshop, Clearer Pronunciation with Clearer Vowels, is Friday, February 20 from 2:30-4:00pm EST in Caldwell Hall room 250! Come early for tea, coffee, and snacks!
How to Critically Review a Paper Workshop February 6
The first spring 2026 ELSO Workshop: How to Critically Review a Paper, will be next Friday, February 6 at 2:30-4:00pm in Caldwell Hall room 250! Come early for tea, coffee, and snacks!
ELSO Tutoring now open to Cornell Tech students
Cornell Tech students can now use English Language Support Office (ELSO) Tutoring!
IGPS Welcome Event
The International Graduate and Professional Students Organization (IGPS) is hosting a welcome event to kick off the Spring semester!
Which ELSO Writing Course to Choose?
ELSO offers four writing courses. Are you wondering which one to choose? Here is some guidance.
Course Applications No Longer Required
Beginning Spring 2026, ELSO writing courses (ELSO 6515, ELSO 6535, ELSO 6565) as well as ELSO 6630 Preparing for the Academic Job Search no longer require instructor permission to enroll.
Heading into Winter Break
We realize that, for many of you, Fall semester has been even more challenging than the typical semester of graduate school. We hope that those of you who have been able to make time for ELSO courses, tutoring programs, workshops, write-ins, English conversation hours, and the Take a Break with ELSO social event have found…
Take a Break with ELSO December 4!
Take a Break with ELSO before winter break on Thursday, December 4 at 4:30-6:30 pm at the Big Red Barn! Join us for pizza, games, and relax with friends, new and old!
Help Support ELSO's Spring Take a Break Event
Graduate students, professional students, and postdocs are facing many challenges: cuts to research funding, loss of access to research data, a shrinking job market. Multilingual international post-graduates and those who were born outside of the U.S. face even more challenges: shifting visa policies, escalating racial tensions, and fears related to increased ICE activity. These students…
Coming soon, ELSO Write-Ins
Shortly after fall break, look for our new 2025 schedule for ELSO Write-Ins.
New Guidance from ELSO on GenAI and Academic Integrity
Cornell’s Code of Academic Integrity states that “a student shall in no way misrepresent his or her work.” Sample violations include “knowingly representing the work of others as one’s own” and “using, obtaining, or providing unauthorized assistance on examinations, papers, or any other academic work.”
ELSO Expands Pronunciation Tutoring Service
The English Language Support Office is now offering a more robust Pronunciation Tutoring Service ever, with eight peer tutors on its staff. This service, established in 2016 by Melissa Myers, helps graduate students, professional students, and postdocs across the university communicate more clearly in the classroom, when giving conference presentations, and during the job search.…
New Tutoring Service: GenAI Writing
This semester, the English Language Support Office is introducing a tutoring service focused on using Generative AI (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot).
Fall 2025 Add period starts soon!
The fall 2025 add period starts next Monday, August 18 at 9:00 am! There are still seats available in the following ELSO courses:
Fall 2025 Pre-Enrollment starts soon!
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 Spring Break Tutoring Hours
Spring Break starts Saturday, March 29! There may not be any classes, but we know breaks are a great time to get work done. ELSO's two tutoring services have announced their availability below:
Take a Break with ELSO!
You are invited to “Take a Break with ELSO!” Come relax, see ELSO faculty and friends, enjoy pizza and games, and meet new people.When: Thursday, March 20, 4:30-6:30 pm
In-Person Write-In
ELSO Writing & Presenting Tutoring Service is sponsoring our first in-person write-in: Saturday, March 15, 1:30-3:30, Caldwell Hall, room 250, led by Zena Casteel.
Save the Date: ELSO's 10th Birthday Celebration!
ELSO turns 10 this year, and to celebrate, we're throwing a party!
Fall 2024 ELSO Tutoring Schedules Open!
The fall 2024 schedules for Pronunciation and Writing & Presenting tutoring are now available!
ELSO Faculty Welcome New Graduate and Professional Students
The English Language Support Office (ELSO) is Cornell University’s writing, speaking, and language support program for multilingual graduate and professional students.
2024 Write Together at Home Program: Summer Writing Support for Postgraduates
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.
ELSO Info Session for DGSs and GFAs
The English Language Support Office (ELSO) provides a variety of programs to support multilingual graduate and professional students as scholars, writers, speakers, professionals, and members of the Cornell community.
ELSO Spring Break Tutoring Hours
Spring Break starts Saturday, March 30! There may not be any classes, but we know breaks are a great time to get work done. ELSO's two tutoring services have announced their availability below:
ELSO Senior Lecturer Melissa Myers Recognized with Innovative Teaching Award
Congratulations to ELSO Senior Lecturer, Melissa Myers, for her Honorable Mention for the “Creative Responses to Generative AI” Teaching Innovation Award from the Center for Teaching Innovation and the Office of the Vice-Provost for Academic Innovation. Myers submitted work done as part of her instruction in ELSO 6595 Revising and Editing, where she worked together…
Sign-up for the Spring 24 Speaking Groups Program!
The ELSO Speaking Group Program (SGP) brings together small groups of international and multilingual graduate students, professional students, and postdocs for weekly discussions about culture, academic interests, and campus life. These groups are led by volunteer facilitators from across the Cornell community. Groups meet weekly during the second half of the semester. All multilingual and…
2024 Peer-Tutor Writing Center Conference
The conference schedule is now available! Twenty presentations and panels will be offered by undergraduate or graduate tutors from a variety of institutions. The schedule for presentations can be found here. A PDF of the full schedule, as well as information about parking, Cornell visitor wi-fi, and campus maps is also available.
ELSO Tutoring is Now Open!
Spring 2024 ELSO Writing and Presenting and Pronunciation tutoring starts January 29th!
2024 Peer-Tutor Writing Center Conference
We invite undergraduate and graduate peer writing tutors to present and discuss the pressing issues, exciting innovations, practical interventions, and ideas currently circulating in your writing center. We hope that tutors from a wide variety of backgrounds and institutional contexts will share the work that is currently motivating tutoring pedagogy and practice, tutor professional development,…
2023 Write Together at Home Program: Summer Writing Support for Postgraduates
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.
Thank you for making Giving Day 2023 a success!
Giving Day 2023 has ended, and thanks to your generous support, ELSO will receive over $700 to continue to enrich our programming that supports graduate-level writing and speaking! The Global Grand Challenges were also a success, and $5000 will be put towards joint programming between ELSO and the Office of the Vice Provost for International…
Spring 2023 ELSO Tutoring Schedules Now Available
For Writing & Presenting, you can work with ELSO tutors on any project—from emails to dissertations—at any stage—from brainstorming to polishing. To book an appointment, go to https://cornell.mywconline.com/ and select “ELSO Sp23 Writing and Presenting” from the top dropdown menu.
ELSO Writing and Presenting Tutoring runs through finals!
Feeling overwhelmed at the end of the semester? Do you have a big presentation coming up? A paper due soon?
Speaking Groups Program Registration is Open!
Registration for the Speaking Groups Program is now open! To participate, register here by September 14!
Fall 2022 ELSO Tutoring Schedules Now Available
For Writing & Presenting, you can work with ELSO tutors on any project—from emails to dissertations—at any stage—from brainstorming to polishing. To book an appointment, go to https://cornell.mywconline.com/ and select “ELSO F22 Writing and Presenting” from the top dropdown menu.
ELSO Welcomes Students in Fall 22
The faculty and staff of the English Language Support Office (ELSO) warmly welcome new multilingual graduate and professional students and welcome back returning students.
Spotlight Faculty | Dr. Michelle Crow, ELSO Director, awarded for her book and outstanding scholarship
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.
Spotlight Tutor | Meet ELSO Tutor Hugo Milan
I’m Hugo Milan, a writing and presentation tutor for international graduate students and post-docs.
Spotlight Tutor | Meet ELSO Tutor Sudan Kariuki
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, presentations, and pronunciation.