Services

If you would like to schedule an appointment in advance, please call (257-1368) or schedule one online, but we also accept drop-in visits. If you come without an appointment, we try to have consultants available on the half-hour to assist you.

Please bring your assignment sheet (and any other information about your project) with you to the consultation. Also, if you prefer to work on a computer, please bring along a jump drive.

Late Policy

Due to high demand, we are only able to hold appointments for five minutes. After that time, appointments may be given away to walk in clients. For this reason, it is important that all clients are on time or early for their appointments, or, if lateness is unavoidable, that clients call to let us know they are running late.

Mission

The Writing Center assists University of Kentucky students, faculty, and staff with the process of writing. Staffed by English graduate students, full-time instructors, part-time consultants, and undergraduate peer tutors, the Center offers free individual and group consultations on prewriting, writing, and rewriting.

We respond in this way because we believe that writing isn't like laundry: it's not something you can drop off for cleaning, then pick up an hour later. We believe that the best way to help you write a better paper (or resume, or letter) is to help you think in productive, sometimes even exciting ways about yourself as a writer. We try to help you think about the purpose of your particular writing (aside from getting a good grade!), about the audience for your writing and your relation to that audience, and about ways to organize your writing--from sections to paragraphs to sentences to individual words and marks of punctuation.

We respond as we do, in other words, because we're committed to helping you become a better writer. If you work with us on a single piece of writing through several sessions, there may well come a time when it's appropriate to focus on grammar, punctuation, and other editing matters. As a general rule, however, that's not where we start in our responses to your work.

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