Why Visit the Writing Center?

Have a question about a paper you're writing? Need a fresh perspective? Want to brainstorm ideas with another writer? At the UVM Writing Center, you can work with students from a variety of disciplines who are experienced writers and trained writing tutors.

Why Meet with a Tutor?

Although roommates and friends can be helpful sources of feedback, peer tutors provide experienced support in a comfortable, confidential, and distraction-free space.

Some writers come because they have a specific question or issue, but you don't need to have a problem to benefit from our services. Simply talking with a tutor can help you move forward with a writing project. Last year, over 800 students visited the Writing Center, for a variety of reasons:

• To make the writing process less stressful and solitary
• To create an excellent rather than merely good paper
• Because they heard from a friend that it was useful
• To get help with a particular type of writing. (Check Tutors by Expertise for a tutor who has experience with that genre or disciplines)

See what students say about the Writing Center.

Some of the areas in which the Writing Center provides assistance include:

• Understanding assignments
• Understanding the expectations for various types of writing
• Finding a topic
• Overcoming writer's block
• Organizing yourself to write
• Finding a writing process that works well for you
• Developing and clarifying ideas
• Discovering a focus or thesis
• Choosing the best way to organize or shape your material
• Creating a strong argument
• Revising your draft
• Understanding teacher comments
• Writing effective sentences
• Working on voice and/or tone
• Editing to create a polished final draft
• Documentation

Last modified July 02 2012 04:30 PM