Winner of the 2008-09 Program of Excellence Award from the
Conference on College Composition and Communication!

Welcome to The Writing Program, a key part of the University's General Education effort!  Since 1982, we have been an independent academic unit serving the entire campus community.  Our mission is to help students here acquire the writing skills they need in their courses, their careers, and their lives in general.  We teach more than 4,000 students a year in our nationally-recognized First Year Writing Program (including Englwrit 111: Basic Writing and Englwrit 112: College Writing); we support more than 60 courses across campus as part of the University’s Junior Year Writing Program, named by U.S. News & World Report one of 25 “Programs that Work” in writing in the disciplines; we offer an innovative series of Experimental Writing Workshops for elective credit; we provide free tutoring for students of all levels in our popular Writing Center; and we sponsor an extensive Teacher Education Program for the nearly 100 graduate Teaching Associates who work for us.  We hope you’ll find here the information you’re looking for; if not, please call (413-545-0610) or email (writingprogram@acad.umass.edu).