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Student Writing Support is now closed for the school year. We will reopen on Tuesday, September 3.

Student Writing Support provides free writing instruction for all University of Minnesota students—graduate and undergraduate—at all stages of the writing process. In face-to-face and online collaborative consultations, we help students develop productive writing habits and revision strategies.

A writing consultation is a conversation between a writer and a consultant. During that conversation, the participants will set an agenda for the session, talk about the work in progress, and work together to meet the writer's goals.

In addition to writing consultations, we offer a variety of videos, printable handouts, and web pages in our quick help section, including resources especially for multilingual writers, especially for graduate writers, for help with documenting sources, and many more.

mySWS is an online interface through which you can manage many aspects of your SWS writing consultations. Through it, you can
  • make, reschedule, and cancel appointments for consultations
  • revise SWS.online submissions, see SWS.online consultant comments, enter SWS.online chats
  • find a list of your upcoming and past SWS consultations
  • record your own reflections on your consultations

For more information, visit our track your visits page.

an online interface through which you can manage many aspects of your SWS writing consultations

Contact

Nicholson Front Desk (to make, reschedule, and cancel appointments, and to ask general questions about SWS)
612.625.1893

Debra Hartley
5 Appleby Hall, 128 Pleasant St SE (Office)
10 Nicholson Hall, 216 Pillsbury Dr SE (Mail)
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612.625.1541
hartley@umn.edu

Katie Levin
10 Nicholson Hall
216 Pillsbury Dr SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
612.624.7720
kslevin@umn.edu

link to Center for Writing giving page

Watch our video about SWS:
Everybody writes. We'll help you you get better at it.

Take a look at our resources for multilingual writers:
Videos about learning to write American academic English: Voices of Minnesota’s Multilingual Writers

Our video: Student Writing Support for Multilingual Writers

Learn more about Articles: Choosing a/an, the, or nothing (Ø) with common nouns

Everyone: Check out our Center for Writing alumni pages!