Visit the Virtual Writing Center

The Virtual Writing Center (VWC) offers all members of the Antioch University community the opportunity to develop their abilities to learn, communicate, and educate through writing.

In the Virtual Writing Center, students can:

• Submit their writing for online feedback and peer consultation
• Access resources designed to help with all phases of the writing process, from conducting research, to defining a thesis, to using grammar to polish your sentences
• Listen to working writers and teachers talk about their own experiences with writing
• Participate in a rich, on-going conversation about writing, teaching writing, and teaching with writing

The Virtual Writing Center is also for faculty. In the VWC, faculty can:

• Explore faculty resources that help them incorporate writing into their courses
• Listen to working writers and teachers talk about their own experiences with writing
• Access resources designed to help with all phases of the writing process, from conducting research, to defining a thesis, to using grammar to polish your sentences

At Antioch University, we believe that writing is a “way of knowing,” a representation of the critical reflection we engage in as we learn. Developing this mode of learning includes discovering one’s own writing process.

The Virtual Writing Center supports all writers in understanding their writing process and we do our best to help every writer:

• Set priorities based on current needs
• Analyze assignments from different disciplines and cope with a variety of academic writing conventions
• Articulate as clearly and simply as possible what must be said, to whom, and why
• Explore possibilities and identify appropriate reference tools for specific issues
• Interpret and apply feedback
• Develop revision, editing, and proofreading techniques

Our consultants are current Antioch University graduate students. All are skilled readers and writers who appreciate the many challenges every writer faces in preparing a new text. All consultants participate in extensive, on-going training.

Message from the Director

Meet the Virtual Writing Center Staff

Anne Maxham, Ph.D. – Director

Denny Russell, M.A. – Coordinator

Andrea Hernandez, M.A. – ELL Specialist

Julie Camp – Peer Consultant

Steve Brown – Consultant