Faculty Services
The University Writing Center Wants to Partner with You!
We support our students best when we are in conversation with those teaching in the classroom. We can work with you to plan and design assignments and prompts, develop best practices for giving feedback on writing or other kinds of texts, and meet your instructional needs.
What We Can Provide
- UWC Orientation Class Presentations: Our intro presentation takes about 10 minutes and gives a brief who, what, when, where, how, and why of the UWC. We are happy to accommodate both in-person and virtual intro presentations. To schedule a UWC Intro Presentation or Writing Workshop, please click on this link: REQUEST A PRESENTATION.
- Writing Workshops/Class Presentations: We have several writing workshops available upon request. One to two UWC representatives can provide these on location in your class or in the UWC, if the space is available. Some customization of standard workshops can be accommodated. Because of high demand, classroom workshops are limited to four sessions per instructor, per semester (not including the UWC Intro Presentation). We may have difficulty booking appointments before 9am and after 7pm Central Time on Mondays-Thursdays and before 9am and after 5pm Central Time on Fridays due to consultant availability. We are not available on weekends or holidays. Current workshop topics include the following:
- Personal Statements (60 minutes)
- Mock Tutoring Session (30 minutes)
- MLA Citation and Formatting (30 minutes)
- Concise Writing (15 minutes)
- Syllabus Statements: The UWC has several templates for syllabus statements about the services of the UWC that you can adapt for your courses.
- Instructional Consultations: Our staff is happy to work with you in designing and structuring your writing assignments.
- Graduate Teaching Assistant Consultations: We will work with your graduate assistants to help them most effectively respond to your students’ writing.
- Writing Studios: In a writing studio, students enrolled in a class meet regularly outside of the classroom space in small groups to actively work together on their research and writing. A UWC consultant facilitates these groups free of charge to you.
Policies for Presentations
Before placing a request, please read our policies:
- Give us at least one week’s notice to schedule a UWC Intro Presentation (requests can still be made within a week, but we may not have the resources available).
- Instructors are limited to four workshop requests per semester, across all sections (this excludes the UWC Intro Presentation).
- Presentations and workshops should include more than five students/attendees.
- Customized classroom presentations may require more than two weeks of lead time. Please reach out to us if you would like us to present on a certain topic.
- We cannot guarantee the first choice of date.
- An instructor/assistant/organization representative must be present during presentations and workshops.
Helpful Handouts
Click here for concise guideline sheets on punctuation and style strategies for class use.