About the Writing Center
What We Do
The Writing Center offers free writing tutorial services to undergraduate and graduate students at Brandeis University. Our staff of knowledgeable graduate student consultants can help you with papers, personal statements, short assignments, ESL issues, job applications, and most of your writing needs. Consultation sessions are client-centered, relaxed, and designed to address both your specific writing project, as well as your overall development as a writer.
We can help you brainstorm and focus topics, build stronger argument skills, use MLA citations correctly, and develop better drafting and editing strategies. In addition to one-on-one sessions with our consultants, the Writing Center also offers group workshops on various writing-related topics.
Although our staff can help you at every stage of the writing process, please keep in mind that we are not an editing service. Our sessions are designed to be a conversation about your project and your particular writing needs.
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 the process - from brainstorming to the final editing phase. Consultants can act as valuable outside readers of student writing, working with writers in the midst of the process to suggest possibilities for revision. While consultants often work with writers on the level of the sentence or the word, they are not editors of student papers. Our consultations are client-centered, interactive, and 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. Many students like to work with a particular consultant on an ongoing basis. We encourage students also to experience consultations with different staff members over the course of the academic year. Please check the posted Writing Center staff list for the names and academic departments of consultants.
Please email comments or questions to Melanie Doherty, Writing Center Director, at melanie@brandeis.edu
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