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Whether you are a veteran English major, a Philosophy graduate student, or a first year pre-med, the USF Writing Center offers assistance to any student who wants to improve his or her writing skills. Our services are free and available to enrolled students, faculty members, and active staff.
- Regular advance-scheduled, one-on-one consultations are 50 minutes long.
- Students are welcome to make two appointments per week (but never back to back).
- Writing Center Consultants are graduate students from the Departments of English, World Languages, and Communication, all of whom have been writing instructors in addition to working as center consultants.
Dissertation Library Guide
The 2012 Dissertation Forum was a great success! Thank you to all who joined us. It was a great time for networking, sharing ideas and learning how to make it through the dissertation process. Many of our presenters offered to share their materials with us. If you weren’t able to join us, or would like a refresher on the materials, please check out the Dissertation Workshop Library Guide! more
Writing a Personal Statement
Whether you’re applying to graduate school, medical school, or that awesome scholarship, chances are you’ll have to develop a personal statement to submit with your application. Personal statements go by many names – statements, letters of intent, statements of research – and is often considered to be one of the most difficult genres of writing. Why is a personal statement so difficult to write? ...more
Top 3 APA Resources
Though it’s hard to believe, we’re nearly half way through Summer A. In fact, some of you are already composing term papers and may have some pressing questions about APA. If you don’t have time to make it to the Writing Center, here are 3 places on the web that can provide some of the answers you need: The Writing Center’s APA Handout: Our APA handout aims to provide a qu ...more
Weekly Resource Roundup: Citing Social Media and Email
As digital discourse becomes more prevalent, it also becomes more relevant to our writing. Citation style guides have, historically, been slow to produce standard citation forms for these emerging resources. This week, we want to share the best resources we’ve found for appropriately incorporating and citing emails, tweets, Facebook posts, and other forms of digital writing. Teachbyte̵ ...more