The Brandeis Writing Center
The Writing Center reopens Monday, September 8, at noon. Consultation sessions will be available for sign up after Labor Day.
We are located in new offices on the first floor of Goldfarb Main Library, around the corner from the UNet Help Desk.
Hours
Monday-Thursday: 12:00pm-9:00pm
Friday: 12:00pm-6:00pm
Please be aware:
- All evening shifts Mondays-Thursdays 6-9PM are now drop-in only. No online sign-up required! Arrive at 6PM to ensure a session.
- Please sign up online for one of our daytime sessions at least 48 hours in advance.
- If you could not reserve the daytime slot you wanted, please don't give up! Be sure to stop by the Writing Center and inquire as we often have open sessions throughout the day due to last-minute cancellations.
- Students who are more than 10 minutes late forfeit their session.
- If you receive an error message when attempting to enroll, that means the session is already full and you must select another time slot.
- To cancel an appointment: Go to my.brandeis.edu/workshops and log in, then click on the "Enrolled Appointments" tab, find your timeslot, click "unenroll" and then click "ok" before closing the window.
- Please cancel and unenroll if you cannot make your appointment.
Please sign up for one 40-45 minute consultation session per shift (with the exception of graduate students and senior thesis writers).
Print your paper out before your session! Our consultants will not work from your laptop. There are print stations and computer clusters located on the Farber mezzanine.
In preparation for the session, students can fill out the Writing Assignment Worksheet.
Faculty, instructors, and teaching fellows can use the Writing Center Referral Worksheet to refer students to the writing center.
At the request of faculty and administration, Writing Center consultants are not permitted to help students with mid-term, "take-home" or final exams. If you know that the nature of your assignment will be unclear to the consultant, please ask your professor for a note permitting you to work on your paper at the Writing Center.
PLEASE NOTE: If you are a student with a documented disability on record at Brandeis, we encourage you to use our services. You will be able to select a regular consultant and schedule consulting sessions in advance. The Writing Center is happy to work with you for extended periods of time whenever possible. The Writing Center urges you to inform the consultant with whom you are working that you have a disability, and to let him or her know about any writing strategies you find effective in helping you. All students who use the Writing Center can rely on a strict policy of confidentiality.
Please email comments or questions to Melanie Doherty, Writing Center Director, at melanie@brandeis.edu
Consultations
At the Writing Center, we promote the idea that effective writing is a process, and we are happy to talk with you about your writing at all phases of that process, from initial brainstorming work to the final editing phase. Our consultants act as valuable outside readers of your writing, working with you to suggest possibilities for revision. While consultants often work with writers on the level of the sentence, they are not copy editors or proofreaders. Our consultation sessions are client-centered and conversational, designed to address specific questions as well as writing issues in general.
Our Consultants
The Writing Center consultants are advanced graduate students from a variety of academic departments with demonstrated writing ability and teaching experience. While many students like to work with a particular consultant on an ongoing basis, we encourage you to experience consultations with different staff members over the course of the academic year.
| Andrew Albin | English | |
| Isha Wright | Conflict & Coexistence | |
| Brian Chalk | English | |
| Sara Withers | Anthropology | |
| Njelle Hamilton | English | |
| Bridget Hatch | English | |
| Rachana Agarwal | Anthropology | |
| Thuy Nguyen | Intern'l Business School | |
| Lydia Fash | English | |
| Reba Wissner | Musicology | |
| Nathaniel Hodes | English | |
| Anne Marie Reardon | American History | |
| Tina Van Kley | English | |
| Benjamin Ochieng | Int'l Economics | |
| Michael Strom | Psychology | |
| Mrinalini Tankha | Anthropology |
| Day/Time | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| 12-3 | Njelle, Rachana | Brian, Anne Marie | Andrew, Nathaniel | Sara, Thuy | Lydia, Reba |
| 3-6 | Njelle, Bridget | Brian, Anne Marie | Bridget, Benjamin | Andrew, Thuy | Lydia, Tina |
| 6-9 | Isha, Rachana | Mrinalini, Michael | Reba, Isha | Andrew, Sara | CLOSED |
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