Welcome to the Graduate Writing Center!

The Graduate Writing Center (GWC) provides trained, friendly, and free peer consulting and workshops for Penn State graduate students of all disciplines and of all levels of writing ability.  The GWC is sponsored by the Pennsylvania State University Graduate School and the Department of English.

The GWC is in 111-H Kern Graduate Commons building, having moved from 111-L Kern on 8/12/09.

To schedule a GWC appointment, click here, or call 865-8021. The GWC follows PSU's academic calendar and is therefore closed when the university is not in session.

In the picture below, Brandy Scalise conducts a workshop on "Writing Dissertation, Thesis, and Conference Proposals" 3/24/09 with 41 participants.

Meet the Staff:

Matt Weiss, Graduate Writing Center Coordinator for 2009-2010. Matt is a doctoral candidate in English, with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition. Originally from Boston, Matt received his BA in English from Haverford College and his MA from Penn State. He has been the Composition Assistant for the English Department for the past two years, and has also tutored in the Undergraduate Writing Center and taught a variety of beginning and advanced composition courses. He is currently co-coordinator of the Public Writing Initiative for Penn State Learning. Matt's research interests include histories of rhetoric, writing technologies, and the ways in which history informs new media scholarship.

Heather Adams, Graduate Writing Center Assistant Coordinator for 2009-2010. Heather is a doctoral student in the Department of English, focusing on Rhetoric and Composition studies. Originally from Ohio, Heather completed her undergraduate work at Mount Union College. She earned an M.A. through Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English and an M.A. in Communication from the University of Maryland. Heather has taught courses in both Communication and First Year Writing. Her research interests include women’s rhetorics, historical and working class discourses, and the rhetoric of comics.

Thanks and farewell to Michelle Smith, the Graduate Writing Center Coordinator for Fall 2008 who returned as a peer consultant Summer 2009; Brandy Scalise, the Coordinator 2007-2008 and Spring-Summer 2009; and Michael New, the Assistant Coordinator for 2008-2009.