The Writing Center @ The University of Wisconsin - Madison
Writing Center Classes
University of Wisconsin - Madison

About UW-Madison Writing Center Classes

 

We have classes about writing for undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty and staff. Classes are open to currently enrolled UW-Madison students, staff and faculty, and are offered free of charge.

Please visit our pages with classes listed alphabetically or classes listed by topic to see what classes we have to offer this Fall. You can also visit our Events Calendar to see the dates and times of this semester's classes.

We suggest you sign up only for those classes that meet your specific needs; these classes are not designed to substitute for a semester-long writing or ESL course. They do not provide the sustained practice with writing and the critical response that good writing courses do.

To register for a class, please fill out the registration form at the bottom of the description page for the course you would like to take. You will receive a confirmation email for your registration within several days.

To attend a class, go to the Writing Center main location in Room 6171 of the Helen C. White building. All classes are held in the vicinity of the Writing Center and the student receptionist on staff will be able to direct you to the specific location when you arrive. We do not offer classes online.

Plan to arrive to your class 10 minutes early. If you would like to register for a class and must miss part of it, please email us prior to registering. Classes are designed to last for the time specified on their description page, and missing part of a class means that you are missing important material.

If you’ve looked through our class offerings and haven’t found the class that you believe will fit your needs, we’d like to hear from you. We are constantly refining and expanding our class offerings and would like to know if there’s a writing topic that we are currently not addressing.

Class Suggestion Form

Please describe what you're looking for in a Writing Center class

If you’d like a response, please fill in the following (optional):

Your name

Email address

@wisc.edu

When you have filled out the form, please

If you’d rather, you can send us email, call, or stop by the Writing Center.

It may be that one of our current offerings will meet your needs. It may be that the topic is best discussed in individual instruction. Or it may be that other students would appreciate our developing a new class to address what you have in mind. In any case, we appreciate your taking the time to let us know whether our class offerings meet your needs.