The mission of the University of Colorado Denver is to provide students, whatever their ages or circumstances, with opportunities to enhance their lives and careers through higher education. The Writing Center at CU Denver supports this mission by empowering student writers through collaborative discussion and instruction. We view writing as a process and all texts as works in progress. We therefore seek to build confident, accomplished writers through the teaching of discipline specific genre knowledge, the development of critical thinking skills and the practice of audience-centered writing. Our clients develop better writing skills while improving their texts.