The Center is staffed with experienced fellow graduate student writers who offer support to graduate students of varying writing abilities. The Writing Center also offers opportunities for graduate students to write together in a supportive community. The Writing Center is part of the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning.
Graduate School
Writing Center
See the Writing Center website for current hours and available appointment formats (virtual or in-person), and to request an appointment.
The Writing Center also facilitates week-long writing retreats in January and July as well as weekly writing groups during the Fall and Spring semesters.
Sheridan Center's English Language Support offers a workshop series as well as one-on-one consultations with a dedicated staff person for multilingual writers.
Please check Today@Brown and the Sheridan Center newsletter for announcements about programming for graduate writers.
About
The Writing Center is a free academic support service available to all members of the Brown Community. Writing Center staff are experienced writers and teachers who participate in ongoing training in Writing Center theory and practice and non-hierarchical methods of teaching writing one-on-one. Experienced as well as inexperienced writers are encouraged to come to the Center to talk about and work on their writing. Writing Center staff can work with writers who are just starting, midway through, and at the finishing stages of a project. Writers work with the Center to talk through their ideas to gain greater clarity and a sense of purpose (sometimes before they have even begun writing), to overcome writer's block, to develop a writing schedule, to appropriately and persuasively address particular audiences, to tighten their arguments, to strengthen their organizational structures, and to work on issues of clarity and style. While the Writing Center does not offer copy-editing, we do work with writers in one-on-one consultations to develop self-editing skills.
Opportunities
The Writing Center also employs around 40 graduate students each academic year. If you wish to become a part of the Writing Center's staff.
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Questions
Contact Charles Carroll or graduate_writing@brown.edu.