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Writing Studio's Exam Week Hours
Dec. 4, 2014—As classes wind up and the semester enters its final stretch, we want to make sure you know that the Writing Studio will be open throughout most of the exam period. Our last appointments of the semester will be during the day on Thursday, December 11 (no evening hours that night). Until then, we’ll be...
Nominations Open for the Undergraduate Writing Symposium!
Nov. 24, 2014—Held each March, the Undergraduate Writing Symposium provides an opportunity for Vanderbilt to celebrate and showcase the exemplary writing of its undergraduate students. We welcome nomination of argumentative essays, research reports, and other writing projects that can be read aloud. Any piece completed during the 2014 calendar year is welcome to compete for inclusion in...
Announcing New Evening Hours in Alumni Hall!
Aug. 8, 2014—The Writing Studio is excited to add evening hours at our location in Alumni Hall for the first time ever. Starting this fall, we’ll be open Wednesday and Thursday nights until 10:00pm in 117 Alumni Hall. We will be continuing to offer evening hours at our location in the Commons Center: Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday...
The Writing Studio opens Wednesday, August 20! Sign up now for an appointment.
Aug. 8, 2014—The Writing Studio will reopen for the Fall 2014 semester on Wednesday, August 20, and our schedule for the semester is now live online. Thank you to all of our summer patrons! We look forward to seeing you and many new faces in the coming academic year.
2014 Morgan Award winners!
Apr. 24, 2014—Congratulations to the winners of the 2014 Henrietta Hickman Morgan Memorial Award for First-Year Writers! Thanks, too, to all who submitted their work for consideration. This year the Morgan Award committee reviewed over 100 submissions and over 650 pages of writing by Vanderbilt’s first-year students. Learn more about the annual Morgan Award competition here.
Undergraduate Writing Symposium Nominations
Dec. 20, 2013—Please have nominations in by January 17th, 2014. To nominate a student, please fill out the nomination form on the Undergraduate Writing Symposium Nomination page.
The Blank Screen and the Blinking Cursor: The Design of Writing
Dec. 6, 2013— by Andy Hines English Writing Fellow for Fall 2013, Vanderbilt Writing Studio Invoking the blank screen and the blinking cursor might as well be the writer’s equivalent of Kurtz’s whisper in Joseph Conrad’s “The Heart of Darkness”: “The horror! The horror!” Why? They are the new site of the beginning of a draft,...
From the Archive: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Consulting Across the Disciplines (Fall 2009)
Sep. 4, 2013—By Megan Minarich (Fall 2009) With the growing trend toward interdisciplinarity in academic settings, one should embrace consulting across the disciplines. Engaging in discourse with someone who is writing in a discipline other than one’s own presents a unique opportunity for growth for both consultants and clients. Consulting across the disciplines forces us consultants to...
From the Archive: Consulting Across the Disciplines (Fall 2009)
Sep. 4, 2013—By Jennifer Holt, Katherine Fusco, and Gary Jaeger Writing Studio consultants are trained to be good generalist readers. Many of us have even found ourselves committed to the idea that consultants have a significant advantage in conversation when we lack expertise either about an entire field or about the specific material that a writer has...
From the Archive: Reflections on Dinner and a Draft (Spring 2009)
Sep. 2, 2013—By Erin Bradfield, former Graduate Writing Fellow The aroma of burritos, rice, and tortillas wafted down the hallway. As six o’ clock approached, a group of students gathered at the Writing Studio in preparation for our session. I had invited Professor Jonathan Neufeld to talk about his writing process over dinner. The students in attendance...