Faculty Services Available at the Graduate Writing Center

In addition to the writing consultations and resources we offer graduate students, we also offer resources to support faculty with their teaching of graduate-level writing and with their own writing.

Resources

Virtual GWC Orientation

Invite us to give your class a virtual introduction to the GWC! We’ll briefly explain what writing resources they can find at the GWC, how they can book appointments, and what they can gain from their sessions with us.

Assignment Review

You can meet with us or email us to discuss your assignments before we meet with your students so that we understand the nuances and expectations of the assignment. You can also meet with us for feedback on your assignments based on the most common questions or concerns we encounter in sessions.

Recommendations

Here are a few ways to support us as we support you in teaching your graduate writers.

Encourage Visits

Much as we would love to meet with all of your students, we lack the capacity to do so at this time. Please encourage rather than require your students to meet with us—extra credit is a great incentive! If you must require your students to meet with us for a certain assignment, have them meet with us once instead of multiple times for the same assignment or for different assignments throughout the semester. Students will often return to meet with us again because they found their first session so helpful.

Share Assignments

Although we ask students for a description of their assignment on our booking form, we do not always have the full assignment details and may not be able to give as detailed feedback. If you share or discuss your assignments with us in advance, we can better understand the expectations and requirements and can ask you any questions if needed before we meet with your students.

Request Proof of Visit (If Needed)

If you need confirmation that your students met with us, please ask your students to select "yes" for proof of visit on our booking form. Following their appointments, you as the professor will receive a "GWC Proof of Visit" email (automatically sent from our WCONLINE appointment system) with the following information: student's name, course code and number, date and time of the appointment, name of the GWC consultant for that appointment, focus of the consultant's feedback, and a confirmation of whether the student shared your assignment instructions or description (in full or part) or described the instructions in their own words. We do not send proof of visit directly to students, unless you as the professor specifically request us to do so.