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Writing across the Curriculum is designed to boost student’s critical thinking skills by requiring them to write in all of their classes. This paper presents the supportive roles and activities of the Writing Center in helping writers improve their writing skills at the International University through journal writing, WAC, as well as workshop activities. The purposes of this paper are: (a) to give some innovative practices in helping students study Academic English in Vietnamese universities, (b) to share and learn from other universities’ Writing Center activities, and (c) to discuss some problems and find out the best possible solutions to improve university students’ writing skill and the tutors’ benefits. This research focuses on the Writing Center activities collaborating with Writing across the Curriculum and all writing activities to support non English-majored students. The research shows the highly satisfactory result from tutoring activities by IU students and tutors. The research also gives some recommendations to make the best use of the Writing Center.

Journal Writing; Workshop Activities; Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC); Writing Center (WC)