University Writing Center

Hours and Upcoming Events

Winter 2023

In Spring Quarter 2023 (March 27 to June 2), the Writing Center will be open at the following times:

 

In-person and online consultations:

Mondays 9am—8pm

Tuesdays 9am—8pm

Thursdays 9am—8pm

Fridays 10am—2pm

Sundays 12pm—7pm (online only)

 

Drop-in hours for WRIT and ASEM students:

Wednesdays 3-5pm and 6-8pm

Fridays 10am-2pm

 

Drop-in hours for support with formatting theses & dissertations

Mondays & Wednesdays 5-6pm

Fridays 1-2pm

 

Writing workshop series in AAC 284 (topics coming soon)

Mondays and Tuesdays 6-7pm

Fridays 12-1pm

 

Appointments

We offer individual and group consultations (free, 45-minute meetings online via Zoom and in-person in Anderson Academic Commons, room 280) to all University of Denver students, faculty, and staff. Make an appointment through our scheduling portal here. For information about our offerings, and to access writing and citation resources, visit our Portfolio.

 

Policies & Practices

• Degree of Help Offered

  We work on just about any kind of writing, including employment and grad school applications and personal and public writing not assigned for a class. Writers may meet with a consultant to discuss an oral presentation, multimedia project, email, blog, work of fiction, civic writing, and most other kinds of writing. We work on all aspects of a writing process from brainstorming through drafting, revising, and final drafts.

  We focus on introducing practices and habits to writers and helping them implement strategies in order to give them additional tools when writing and rereading their work. These strategies often address grammatical, mechanical, and stylistic concerns, but they do so with a focus on long-term, widely-applicable practices, not on short-term, specific "fixes."

• Number of Consultations Offered

  DU undergraduate students, graduate students, faculty, and staff may schedule in advance up to one  appointment per day, three appointments per week, and thirty appointments per quarter. 

  Individuals may stop by the Writing Center in Anderson Academic Commons 280 or join our Zoom room at the start of any hour to see if a drop-in consultation is available. If no appointments are available at that time, we are happy to schedule the individual for the next available spot. 

  We invite alumni to schedule one appointment per week in weeks 1-8 of any quarter; in weeks 9-10, alumni should contact us at wrc@du.edu to see if we have appointments available.

• Drop-in Consultations

  Writers who have not exceeded their consultation limits are welcome to drop in without an appointment from :00 until :15 after each hour. If we have a consultant free, we are happy to make you an appointment for that hour.

• Missed Appointments

  We hold all appointments until :15 past the hour. After that time, if a writer has not come in for a scheduled appointment without letting us know, we may release that appointment to a waiting writer.

• Expectations for Online Consultations

  Writers and consultants must refrain from smoking, vaping, drinking alcohol, driving, or operating motor vehicles during their consultations.

• How to Prepare for a Consultation

  To best prepare for your face-to-face or online consultation, we suggest you re-read your current draft and assignment or instructions while considering what you most want to address with your consultant.

  Consider your writing goals: what would you like to accomplish? What specific challenges are you experiencing? What questions do you have? If you have a longer paper, which section are you most interested in discussing?

  Consider your writing history: what kinds of comments have you received from professors, readers, colleagues, peer reviewers, or others on previous writing? What challenges do you face in writing? What strengths do you have a writer?

  Consider your writing process: where are you in the process of this particular piece of writing: first draft? almost finished? When revising, what kinds of feedback and conversation do you find productive? What are your writing habits?

  Please bring any relevant materials: hard copy drafts, assignment prompts, notes, texts/source material, laptop, and your ideas and questions.

• What to Expect

  When you come in for an appointment, the person at the front desk will greet you and may ask if you have a printed copy of your paper (some consultants prefer working that way). They will ask you to have a seat at the front of the room, and when the hour begins, your consultant will come meet you and take you to a table.

  Your consultant is likely to begin by asking some questions about your writing goals, your writing history, and your writing process. They will probably ask about the assignment or project you're working on, and they will ask you to help set an agenda for the session. You'll have about 45 minutes to work together.

  In general, you and your consultant may read sections of your paper together out loud or silently. You may also try out new strategies, develop an outline or generate ideas, consult resources, and so on.

  After your consultation is over, your consultant will ask you to offer us some feedback in a quick exit questionnaire. The results of this questionnaire help us to revise and refine our practices.

  We hope that you'll leave with new approaches to writing and new perspectives on your work.

• To Make an Appointment

  To make an appointment, go to du.mywconline.com

  If this is your first visit, click on "Register for an account"; otherwise, log in, choosing the current term's schedule.

  Once you've logged in, you'll see a schedule grid for the next seven days. Click on any white square to make an appointment with a consultant.