WHAT WE DO

You can schedule an appointment to meet with a writing coach about any writing concerns you have. You can send your writing ahead of your appointment so your coach has time to make notes about your assignment and effectively use your appointment time to talk about improvements that can be made and patterns that occur. Sessions are 30 minutes with a limit of two sessions per week for each graduate student.

Please Note: Our coaches do not edit or proofread your documents. Rather, they identify patterns of errors and instruct you on how to recognize and correct them.

Schedule an appointment with a writing coach

We recognize that it can be difficult or impossible for members of our eCampus community to physically meet with one of our writing coaches, so we also offer online writing consultations. When you submit your document for review, you can specify whether you need a Spotlight Review, Formatting Check, or just a Quick Question answered. Writers may submit two pieces of writing per week, but not on the same day. Quick questions will not count toward this total.

We accept up to 10 pages of writing per submission, which is all we have time to read in a session. However, these pages do not have to be sequential if you have different sections you need us to look at. If you need a full review of a long document, we are happy to go through it with you, but you will need to submit it in 10-page sections twice a week for however long it takes to complete the review.

Our writing coaches will read and review your submission in as timely a manner as possible. We read submissions in the order we receive them. If there is a volume of high submissions, a response could take several days. Please submit as far ahead of your deadline as you can, but be assured that we will read your work as promptly as possible.

Again, if you are seeking editing of your work, please know that we do not proofread documents. Rather, we identify patterns of errors and instruct you on how to recognize and correct them.

Submit an online writing consultation

We offer appointments to help if you are working on your thesis/dissertation/project and have difficulties formatting your document. While you have creative liberty over your document, we do expect your thesis/dissertation/project to look a certain way when you submit your advisor-approved copy for review. We understand that Microsoft Word and the template can be difficult to work in sometimes, but we can help you overcome those obstacles if you make an appointment.

Schedule a formatting appointment