The Writing
Place
Room 2304 University
Library, North Tower, Second Floor
Phone: (847) 467-2791 || E-mail: writingplace@northwestern.edu
The Writing Place is a service of the WCAS
Writing Program, Northwestern University.
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The Writing Place is Northwestern's peer tutoring center for writers. Whether you are writing a paper for a class, composing application letters and essays, or working on some other writing project, a Writing Place consultant can help you at any stage of the writing process, from talking about ideas to developing a plan to preparing the final copy.
Consultations are free and available to anyone in the Northwestern community: undergraduates, graduate students, faculty, or staff.
Before making an appointment, you must register online, using your Northwestern e-mail address. That will become your Writing Place log-in. Please choose a password that is different from your NU computer password
Locations
Evanston Campus Main Writing Place University Library Room 2304 The main Writing Place is open to all students in the university. We are open seven days a week. To see the schedule and make an appointment, click the "Make an Appointment" link and check the schedule. Chicago Campus Writing Place Schaffner Library, 2nd floor The Chicago Campus Writing Place offers tutoring to School of Continuing Study students and other Northwestern students who are located on the Chicago campus. The center offers both onsite and distance tutoring. Graduate Writing Place Kresge Hall Room 2-260 The Graduate Writing Place provides writing consultations for PhD students throughout the university. To make an appointment at the Graduate Place, write to writingplace@northwestern.edu and provide a brief description of what you are working on. PhD students and Masters students are also welcome at main Writing Place. Graduate students in the School of Continuing Studies may also use the services of the Chicago Campus Writing Place. |
Appointments
To make an appointment at the Evanston "University Library" Writing Place or Chicago Campus Writing Place, click the link above. Writers can make up to two hours of appointments per week. If, in an emergency, you need an additional appointment, please e-mail writingplace@northwestern.edu with your reasons and request. To make an appointment at the Graduate Writing Place, click the link above to register on the site and to check appointment availability. Then write to writingplace@northwestern.edu to request and appointment. Please provide a brief description of what you are working on. To cancel an appointment:
If you need to cancel an appointment, we request that you do so as soon as possible, but at least one hour in advance. This allows others to take advantage of the appointment time. |
Are you interested in becoming a peer writing tutor?
The Writing Place hires talented juniors and seniors to work as writing consultants. Applications are due Friday May 11 (deadline has been extended).. As part of tutor training, all new tutors will enroll in English 304, Practical Rhetoric: Issues in Tutoring Writing. For an application, click here. We will be arranging interviews in May. For additional information, contact Professor Barbara Shwom in the WCAS Writing Program, Kresge 2-245, Evanston Campus. (bshwom@northwestern.edu or 847-491-7690).
New for 2012-13
Graduate Writing Fellows
The Graduate Writing Fellows Program aims to bring together a group of Northwestern graduate students who want to augment their own (already strong) writing, leadership, and teaching skills at the same that they improve the writing skills of other graduate students at Northwestern. Graduate Writing Fellows work one-on-one with graduate students from across the university to respond to their writing in progress and to coach them in principles of expression, argumentation, and organization. Moreover, Fellows will draw on their own disciplinary expertise and interests to help develop workshops, events, and resources that cater to both broad and specific graduate student audiences. For more information and an application, click here.
Are you a Northwestern faculty member?
If you are interested in finding out more about how your students can benefit from working with a Writing Place consultant, please contact the Director of the Writing Place, Barbara Shwom (bshwom@northwestern.edu).
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