Welcome to the Penn State Graduate Writing Center!

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

The GWC is located in 111-L Kern Graduate Commons building, inside the graduate student suite.

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.

Welcome to Rosalyn Collings Eves, Graduate Writing Center Coordinator for 2006-2007. Rosalyn is a doctoral candidate in English, with an emphasis in Rhetoric and Composition. Her particular interests are in rhetorical history, memory studies, spatial theory, and women's rhetoric. Her dissertation focuses on the impact of place on rhetorical performance in nineteenth-century women rhetors in the American West. In addition to teaching writing courses at Penn State, she has previously worked as the Graduate Writing Center coordinator (2004-5) and is pleased to return a second time.

Welcome to Paulette Y. Gilmore, 2006-2007 Assistant Coordinator. Paulette is a Ph.D. student of English with concentrations in African American literature and African American rhetoric. Paulette’s scholastic work examines existential motifs in African American texts, particularly those present but as yet not specifically identified as existential in the works of African American women of letters. Paulette has abundant and diverse experiences as a graduate assistant in the Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program and as a teacher of literature, composition, and English as a Second Language.

Thanks and Farewell to Stacey Sheriff, 2005-2006 Coordinator, and to Pia Deas, Spring 2006 Assistant Coordinator. They remain at Penn State while finishing their dissertations.