As an academic unit in LA&PS, the Writing Centre is staffed by faculty members and graduate students with scholarly expertise in the fields of writing and composition studies. The Writing Centre offers students, faculty, graduate students, and supervisors support throughout their writing process at the university.
Writing Centre faculty are also happy to meet with instructors to consult on assignment design, course design, multilingual teaching strategies, and integrated discipline-specific writing instruction support.
Book an Individual Faculty Consultation or join our new Faculty Drop-in Hour on Thursday mornings.
Encourage your students
Encourage your students to participate in the community of writers at the Writing Centre throughout their university career!
- Connect your students with our workshops and asynchronous resources.
- Include information about the Writing Centre on your course syllabus and in eClass
- Play our orientation video for your class.
- Request an In-class Demystifying Academic Writing Workshop.
Consult with us
Consult with us on ways to integrate discipline-specific writing instructions into your own courses without any additional work or stress!
- Integrated discipline-specific writing instruction support
- Assignment design
- Assessment techniques
- Multilingual teaching strategies
Call on us to support you
Call on us to support you in your supervisory role as you guide graduate students through their dissertation-writing process.
- Refer upper level PhD candidates to our Graduate Cafe, where they connect with their peers as our graduate writing specialists help them manage the thesis writing process
- Work with our Graduate Writing Support Guide as you build your supervisor-graduate student relationship
- Consult with us on strategies to incorporate writing instruction into supervisory practice
- Meet with us to share effective feedback techniques to build reciprocity into the writing process review process
Hear from our students
I've used the Writing Centre and encouraged students to use their services. In my practice, I developed new tools for editing and enhancing clarity when discussing complex ideas. For my students, I've seen significant improvement in their ability to meet and exceed assignment requirements after attending one-on-one sessions.
— Kira Smith
Doctoral Student, Critical Disability Studies
Note our policies
- We uphold student integrity. We do not copyedit student work. Our goal is to support students as they become more effective, independent writers.
- We maintain student privacy. We strive to provide students with safe and secure learning environments. We do not disclose or report on student activities in the Writing Centre.