About the Graduate Writing Center

The Graduate Writing Center began offering its services to Penn State graduate students in January 1999. Since its opening it has provided consultations for graduate students from more than 65 different disciplines. Many of these consultations were held with members of Penn State 's international student community, including Argentine, Chinese, French, German, Indian, Korean, Mexican, Nigerian, Russian, Thai, and Turkish students. Both graduate students and instructors have offered highly positive assessments of the Center's helpfulness in teaching critical writing and thinking.

Graduate students are invited to schedule appointments for one-to-one collaborative discussions about theses, dissertations, seminar papers, proposals, or whatever writing projects they are currently undertaking. These collaborative discussions seek both to generate productive feedback about specific projects and to improve students' writing and critical thinking abilities in general.

The Center is coordinated by a Ph.D. student in English, who has experience in the teaching and tutoring of writing. To ask questions about GWC services or to schedule a consulting appointment, please call 865-8021.