Writing Center
The Vassar College Writing Center promotes a campus-wide culture of writing. We work to support, spotlight, and bring together Vassar’s community of faculty and student writers. Through peer-to-peer writing consultations at all stages of the writing process, faculty teaching support activities, and campus-wide programs, we occasion immediate, engaged conversations among Vassar’s writers. We aim to develop an awareness of the writing process, and to facilitate a critical examination of how writing enables our participation in the academy and the larger community. The Writing Center forges connections among all writers regardless of their class year or discipline. Our consultants, who come to us from disciplines across Vassar’s curriculum, are committed to helping their peers develop empowering strategies for communication it its complexities – an essential component of a Vassar education.
Designated Consultant Program
Faculty teaching writing-intensive courses can request a designated consultant to work specifically with their students individually and through specially tailored class workshops throughout the semester. Also, our director meets with faculty to consult on the design of writing assignments.
The Writing Center is housed in the LTRC, Library Room 122.
Drop-in Hours
Sundays through Thursdays, 3-5pm and 7-11pm
Saturdays, 1-3pm
One caveat: because we emphasize process writing, we don’t meet with students ON THE SAME DAY their work is due.
We look forward to talking through your next writing project.
Please email us for more information
Consultants
- Foster Ranney, 2010, head consultant and program developer
- Jon Roth, 2010, head consultant and program developer
- Emily Strasser, 2010, head consultant and program developer
- Alison Cagle, 2010
- Zoë Carpenter, 2011
- Dana Christy, 2011
- Aaron Colton, 2012
- Jennifer DiMauro, 2010
- Alexis Hedrick, 2010
- Dronile Hirlado, 2011
- Kyle Holter, 2011
- Natasha Jamal, 2010
- Chelsea Mitamura, 2011
- Adam Newman, 2011
- David Prentice, 2010
- Rebecca Roseman, 2010
- Shahreen Saifi, 2010
- Joseph Schiavo, 2012
- Daniel Schwartz, 2011
- Lila Teeters, 2011
- Kara Voght, 2011
Tips for Your Visit to the Writing Center:
- Come early, come often!
- Bring the writing assignment if you can.
- If a professor repeatedly criticizes something in your writing, schedule a consultation to talk about improving that specific aspect of your work.
- Build relationships around writing. Graduate from Vassar as part of a writing community.
Consider visiting to talk about your multimedia writing, your senior thesis, your graduate school personal essay. We look forward to talking with you about whatever you are writing!