Writing
To support advanced, professional, and academic writers, we offer:
- Single or sequenced one-on-one tutoring sessions that work with you and your writing. (For graduate students and post docs, please see Info for Graduate Students and Post-Docs).
- Workshops on specific writing tasks for specific groups of writers. For more information about upcoming workshops, please contact us by email at @email.
What You Can Do
Request a Class Visit.
We send a Writing Center tutor to your classroom for a ten-to-fifteen minute presentation. The tutor will introduce your class to our Writing Center's philosophies, what to expect in a session, and how to make an appointment. To request a class visit, fill out this form.
Include this blurb to your syllabus.
The Writing Center is located in W. E. B. Du Bois Library and provides free support on any writing you do while at UMass, whether for a course or not. Trained tutors are available to work with you as you plan, draft, and revise your writing. Please visit www.umass.edu/writingcenter for hours and information about making appointments.
Add us to your Canvas Course.
Adding the Writing Center Canvas page to your Canvas course is an easy way to encourage your students to use the Writing Center. The Canvas page has information about the Writing Center and how to make an appointment along with links to helpful resources. To request a Canvas page, please email the Writing Center at @email and let us know if you are requesting a page for an undergraduate or graduate course. You will receive a notification via email and via Canvas that a page has been shared with you. You can then easily import the page to your existing Canvas course.
We ask that instructors encourage students to visit but not require them to see a tutor or offer extra credit for visits. Tutoring works much better with self-motivated writers seeking support. Further, because we have a small staff, we do not have the capacity to guarantee that all students with required appointments can be seen. For these reasons, tutors do not sign notes or otherwise provide instructors with information about students who visit the Writing Center.
Contact
If you have questions about the UMass Writing Center, please email @email.