The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Writing Center’s mission is to help undergraduate and graduate students in all disciplines become more effective, more confident writers. In support of this mission, we offer what we call “outreach” as part of our Writing Across the Curriculum program and dedication to the University’s pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, and…
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Academic and Professional Writing
In this section, you will find many instructional materials we’ve developed for our Writing Center teaching. However, there are limitations to these materials. Assignments vary, and different instructors want different things from student writers. Therefore, the advice here may or may not apply to your writing situation. Finally, handouts can give only a fraction of…
For Faculty
A Few Things We Can’t Do
As an enrolled UW-Madison student, our goal is to help you learn more about writing. We are very glad to work with you on your writing for most UW-Madison classes and professional documents for employment or future study. We wish we could work with you on every paper you’ll ever be assigned, but unfortunately there…
What We Can Do for You
Services for Undergraduates Undergraduates have always been the core clientele for the Writing Center, and we are proud to serve a consistently increasing number of undergraduate writers each semester. If you are writing papers for an introductory course, whether it is Philosophy or Women’s Studies or Biocore or Political Science or English, an individual appointment…
About the Writing Center
We help undergraduate and graduate writers at any stage of the writing process—from choosing a topic to drafting and revising—for any writing project. During an appointment, we will talk about your goals, review your writing, and have a conversation about what next steps you might take. We help writers learn more about everything from thesis…