Individual Consulting
The Claremont Graduate University Writing Center provides 1 free consultation every week for all CGU students, faculty, and staff. We believe that any writer, even a professional, can benefit from sharing drafts with a colleague. Although we won't type your paper or guarantee you an "A," we will help you with the entire writing process, from clarifying and organizing ideas to polishing your style. We can work with you in person at our house on 12th street, or we can provide online feedback.
To find out more about how our individual consulting services work, please read our page on individual consulting, which includes guidelines, our scheduling and cancellation policies, and a special note to students who would like to set up a series of regularly-scheduled appointments with one of our Instructors.
To schedule an individual appointment via our online appointment service, or to submit a paper via our online service, click here.
Workshops
Each semester, the Writing Center offers at least two free workshops for members of the CGU community. Past topics have included "Presenting Conference Papers," "Preparing for Qualifying Examinations," "Writing Graduate Research Papers," "Overcoming Writer's Block," and "Writing Book Reviews and Literature Surveys."
Please click here for more information on special events offered during the current semester.
Class Presentations
Writing Center Instructors are often featured as guest speakers in CGU classes. During these class presentations, Instructors provide advice on how to approach particular writing assignments and sometimes facilitate peer review sessions. Past sessions have included "Writing Literature Surveys," "Approaching the 'Close Reading' Assignment," and "Writing Critical Reviews."
These presentations are free to CGU professors and typically range between 20 and 60 minutes. All interested faculty members should contact us by phone (607-0012) or email.
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Online Consulting
In addition to in-person appointments the Writing Center also offers an online consulting service. Students may submit papers as email attachments and will receive comments from an Instructor. The time an Instructor spends reading the paper and composing comments is included in the student's allotment of eight free consulting hours for the semester. Generally, an online submission takes 1-2 hours for an instructor to read and compose comments. The online service is particularly helpful for global organizational and structural concerns. It is less helpful for sentence-by-sentence suggestions.
Please read our Online Consulting Instructions and Guidelines thoroughly before submitting a paper.
Please note that this service is available to current Claremont Graduate University students only--it is not available to the public or students at other institutions.
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Teaching Practica
Writing Center staff members are available to facilitate workshops on pedagogy for current or future college instructors. Topics covered have included units such as "Teaching Composition with Writing to Learn Activities," "Assigning and Evaluating Student Writing," and "Technology and the Writing Process."
Since individual CGU departments sponsor the practica and pay all fees, these workshops are open only to members of the department that sponsors the practicum. Past practica have included "Teaching Writing in the Cultural Studies Classroom" and "Teaching Writing in the Philosophy Classroom."
For more information, please email us.
Resource Library
The Writing Center houses books and handouts on all aspects of the writing process, from developing a topic to proofreading. We also have style manuals, academic writing texts and books on writing in the disciplines.
All students are welcome to stop by our house at 141 E. 12th Street to use the Resource Library. To ensure that a staff member will be present to let you into our resource room, email us to schedule an appointment.
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Dissertation Reading
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1. What we can do: Look at a selection of your dissertation (your choice) in a regular one hour in-person session or a series of sessions (once a week all semester long). What we can do in these sessions: look at clarity, organization, style, bibliographic formats, methodology, flow of argument, and point out patterns of grammar errors. You can also submit up to one chapter for comments either through our online submission process, by fax or mail, or by dropping off your chapter at our office. Call or email The Writing Center for more information.
2. What we can't do: Read your whole dissertation or proofread (i.e. copy-edit or point out every grammar error) the whole or any part of your dissertation. We cannot "approve" your dissertation or recommend to your committee that it be passed.
3. What you need to do first before bringing us your dissertation: Proofread your own work for spelling and grammar errors.
4. Options: You can also arrange for private professional proofreading by one of our Instructors for a fee. Contact the Writing Center office if you would like to arrange for private editing or proofreading.
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