Writing and Speaking Center
New appointment policy effective 8.30.19 - All students are limited to 5 hours of consultation time per week. Graduate students are limited to one (1) two-hour appointment with a graduate consultant per week, but are welcome to make appointments with our undergraduate consultants for their remaining 3 hours.
Fall 2019 Hours - Monday - Thursday 8am - 8pm, Friday 8am - 4pm and Sunday 2pm - 8pm
Walk-ins: Monday - Friday 10am - 4pm and Sunday 2pm - 6pm. All walk-ins are first come, first serve.
Meet our writing consultants. Search by name, major, etc.
Online Consultations
We now offer online asynchronous (email) and synchronous (live chat) consultations for all available time slots. Make one now.
HOC & LOC
View our Higher Order Concerns and Lower Order Concerns resource to learn what is most important during revising.
APA & MLA Websites
Official APA blog site offers information and examples for obscure citations and questions that may not be answered in the APA manual: http://blog.apastyle.org.
Official MLA website that offers lots of tools for both formatting and citation: http://style.mla.org. Also available is the University of Nevada, Reno APA Citations Guide, https://guides.library.unr.edu/apacitation and the MLA Citation Guide https://guides.library.unr.edu/mlacitation.
Fall Semester Hours
Monday - Thursday 8am - 8pm, Friday 8am - 4pm and Sunday 2pm - 8pm
Walk-ins: Monday - Friday 10am - 4pm and Sunday 2pm - 6pm. All walk-ins are first come, first serve.
The University Writing & Speaking Center (UWSC) supports:
- Writers at all levels
- Work at any stage of writing from development to completion
- Academic, professional, personal, community, and creative projects
- Written, visual, oral, digital, and mixed media 'texts'
UWSC Blog
Our blog publishes news and advice for students. Submissions are welcome from all writers on campus.
UWSC Podcast
NEW! The University Writing Center podcast, Words on Words, provides a different way for students to interact with writing and writing resources. Each podcast features a friendly discussion among UWC consultants on a particular topic related to writing.
Portfolio Workshop
Are you ready to workshop your portfolio? Apply for our Portfolio Workshop today.
