The Center for Writing
The Center for Writing is a welcoming space where Norwich’s writers — students, faculty, and staff — come together to talk about writing.
Our mission at the Center for Writing is to create a culture of writing here at Norwich. What exactly does that mean? It means we acknowledge how much writing we all do daily in professional settings, digital environments, and within our communities. The center helps make all that writing more visible through consultations, events, workshops, discussions, classroom visits, outreach, initiatives, and relationships. We believe that we are all, every one of us, writers and that together we can help each other become even better writers.
To support this belief, we offer free one-to-one consulting, as well as small group workshops, to the Norwich community. Our peer consultants are sophomores, juniors, and seniors from a wide range of disciplines who are trained to work with writers on a variety of writing projects — academic, creative, professional, digital — at all stages of the writing process.
Schedule an Appointment
Make an appointment with us as a residential or online student.
Residential students living on, or commuting to Norwich’s campus
We offer in-person, virtual, and written feedback appointments for you. Appointments are scheduled through EAB-Navigate. View our scheduling instructions. In-person appointments should come to the 2nd floor of the Kreitzberg Library, room 201. Virtual appointments will take place over Teams. Your writing coach will email you a Teams link to access your appointment. For written feedback requests, you do not need to be present or available for the appointment time. Instead, please email your writing and any prompts or rubrics to writingctr@norwich.edu. You will receive feedback on your paper within 48 hours of your scheduled appointment time. Yes, we also accept drop-ins.
Online students taking classes at Norwich exclusively online
We offer virtual and written feedback appointments for both Undergraduate and Master's online students. To schedule an appointment, please email writingctr@norwich.edu. Provide the days and times that would work best for your schedule. Please try to request appointments at least 24 hours in advance so we can best accommodate your request.
Virtual appointments will take place over Teams. Your writing coach will email you a Teams link to access your appointment. For written feedback requests, you do not need to be present or available for the appointment time. Instead, please email your writing and any prompts or rubrics to writingctr@norwich.edu. You will receive feedback on your paper within 48 hours of your scheduled appointment time.
Operating Hours
The Center for Writing is open for summer sessions A and B. Appointments are available Monday through Friday, 3-5 p.m. or by request. Please book through EAB Navigate. All appointments are virtual, though in-person appointments are available upon request. Please email writingctr@norwich.edu to request an appointment outside the posted time or to request an in-person appointment.
What We Do
Whether you need help brainstorming ideas for a history paper, organizing a lab report, or developing characters in your next novel, our consultant guide can help guide you through that process by listening to your concerns, asking thoughtful questions, and providing examples and suggestions that are tailored to your needs.
- Interpret assignments
- Brainstorm ideas
- Develop a thesis
- Organize ideas
- Enhance clarity
- Use Word effectively
- Compose in various media
- Revise early drafts
- Pre-write
- Hone their style
- Analyze and target audiences
- Cite sources effectively
- Determine how to publish
- Learn more about grammar
We can work with you on a variety of writing-related processes and issues, but we do not copy-edit. Our goal is to work together to become better writers. As a result, we focus on things like brainstorming, organization, style, research practices, and other writing tasks.
For instructors who would like support in their courses, we can provide embedded consulting during classes devoted to writing, revision, editing, or documentation and we can provide in-class workshops. Workshop topics range from a brief introduction to the Center for Writing to citation and source integration support, to writing process reflections, to essay structure and paragraphing. To request a workshop, please complete our workshop request form.
We also support Norwich faculty who want to integrate more writing into their courses or refine their existing writing assignments, exercises, and feedback. And, because faculty are writers too, we provide the space and support for faculty writing groups.