Faculty Writing Support

Supporting faculty writers

As faculty, we know that writing is often a big part of the work that you are doing – grants, articles, written feedback to students, writing assignment prompts and syllabi, the emails ... oh, the emails. 

The University Writing Center can help you with all of that. 

• Need help with accountability, or just the pretense to set aside an hour or two a week to really focus on your writing?
• Want to get out of the lab and into a lively place where people are always thinking about and supporting writers?
• Want a person who has recently graduated to help you think through your writing prompts?
• Hoping to brainstorm with someone about how to incorporate writing in your class in a way that makes lazy artificial intelligence use more difficult?
• Need help seeing if the "pitch" for your grant proposal is clear to a non-expert?

These are just a few of the things you might make an appointment to accomplish. We offer faculty the same support we offer all writers: one-on-one writing consultations where we'll do just about anything except line-edit your work. Our sessions last 50 minutes and faculty can sign up for up to three appointments a week and can make appointments with the same consultant. 

Faculty Fellows

The Faculty Fellows program is a semester-long partnership between a faculty member and the University Writing Center to receive individualized attention and extensive feedback on a specific writing project, such as a grant, a conference proposal, a public writing project, a journal article or a monograph. By being in the fellows program, faculty will reserve regular times with either the Writing Center director or associate director weekly, twice a month or monthly to work toward a project goal. 

Faculty Writing Groups

The University Writing Center is happy to arrange, facilitate, and host faculty writing groups for specific departments, specific grant submissions, or a group of interested faculty members. We have experience with writing groups that are just dedicated to writing accountability, informal check-ins on writing progress, or feedback-focused meetings. We are open to hosting both in-person, virtual, and hybrid sessions.