Writing Center (Fredericksburg Campus)

Welcome to the Fredericksburg Writing Center

Part of the college-wide Writing Intensive Program, the Writing Center expresses the College’s belief in writing competence as an essential ingredient of a liberal arts education.  Operating within the Honor Code, the Writing Center offers free tutorial assistance to students, regardless of major, class level, or skill level.

Extended Hours: For the week of April 22-25 the Writing Center will be extending its hours to 10-9 (Friday, April 26 we will be open 10-4). Additionally, we will be open the weekend of April 27 from 12-5, and we will hold normal operating hours during finals week.

We will have evening hours tarting Monday, February 4th at the Simpson Library’s Jazzman Cafe: M-Th from 7 p.m. – 9 p.m.

The Writing Center is converging with the Simpson Library to offer students an optional location and expanded hours.  From 7 p.m.-9 p.m., M-Th, a writing center tutor is available in the Simpson Library’s Jazzman Cafe. Appointments are recommended (call 540-654-1036) but walk-ins may be helped when the tutor is free. Additionally, we will again be open in Trinkle Hall from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., M-Th and 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Fr. We look forward to helping you improve your writing skills! 

Since the Writing Center schedule fills quickly during busy times in the semester, it’s a good idea to make appointments in advance of need.  Walk-in service may be available.

Get Paid for Doing Your Homework!

2012 Writing Contest Raffle

The Writing Center is holding a monthly raffle. Each month a $25 gift card will go to a lucky winner!  All you have to do is submit a paper written for any UMW course during 2012 along with a completed contest application. You will receive a raffle ticket for our monthly drawing. Check out the link above for details! 

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Here is the schedule for our Spring 2013 student workshop series: Workshop Schedule 

 

 Join us in congratulating the winners of the 2012 Writing Center Contest:

Freshman Seminar Students:

 Sarah Sanford “French New Wave: Deconstructing Society through Film”

(Dr. Leonard Koos, FSEM: French New Wave).

 Katherine Coleman “Ruin”

(Dr. Craig Vasey, FSEM: Race and Revolution). (Honorable Mention)

 Arts and Humanities (Freshmen and Sophomores):

 Gabrielle Colonna “Mormon Fundamentalism and the Government: The Clash of 1953”

(Dr. Mary Beth Mathews, RELG 305: US Politics and Religion).

 Lisa Johnson “A Compromise: Coping with Inerasable Trauma in Fall on Your Knees

(Dr. Duncan Warner, ENGL 205: Art of Literature).

 Arts and Humanities (Juniors):

 Joy (Gi Peum) Lee “Feminism and Disability in ‘The Treatment of Bibi Haldar’”

(Dr. Christofer Foss, ENGL 375A2: Disability and Literature).

 Edgar McKewen-Moreno “Caging the Pendulum: Satire, Censorship, and the Licensing Act of 1737”

(Dr. Helen Housley, THEA 361: History of Theater).

 Annie Grotophorst “Gustave Caillebotte: Paris’ Urban Impressionist”

(Dr. Joe Dreiss, ARTH 350: Neoclassicism to Post-Impressionism). (Honorable Mention)

 Arts and Humanities (Seniors):

 Anne Grasselli “New York Impressionist Artists and their Reactions to French Impressionism”

(Dr. Joe Dreiss, ARTH 470A3: Seminar: New York City).

 Hannah Kassebaum “The Evolution of Scribbling”

(Dr. Gwendolyn Hale, ENGL 307: The Writing Process). (Honorable Mention)

 Lauren Dry “An Everlasting Bond: A (n Auto) Biographical Account of Sisterhood in Jane Austen’s Novels”

(Dr. Gwendolyn Hale, ENGL 307: The Writing Process). (Honorable Mention)

 Social Sciences (Freshmen and Sophomores):

 Gabrielle Colonna “The French Women’s Movement”

(Dr. Stephen Harris, HIST 381: Europe Since 1945).

 Social Sciences (Juniors):

 Kathryn Latimer, Alex Lee, Krista Riggleson, Kimmy Slater & Brian Wood “Legal Aid for Immigrants in the US”

(Dr. Debra Schleef, SOCG 364: Quantitative Research Methods).

 Laila McQuade “Turkey and the PKK”

(Dr. Nabil Al-Tikriti, HIST 304: Turkey: Empire to Republic).

 Social Sciences (Seniors):

 Carly Boucher “‘They Have No Army but They’ll Win the War’: Polish Cultural Persistence During World War II”

(Dr. Stephen Harris, HIST 485: Historical Research).

 Zach Feinstein “Is Argentina’s Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner a Populist?”

(Dr. Robert Barr, PSCI 444: Political and Social Movements in Latin America).

 Anna Holman “Making the Personal into the Political: Margaret Sanger and Changes in Public Perception of Birth Control”

(Dr. Jeffrey McClurken, HIST 485: Historical Research).

 William Kyle “National Security Council Memorandum: American Foreign Policy towards Iran and the Strait of Hormuz”

(Dr. John Kramer, PSCI 356: American Foreign Policy).

 Brooke Parker “‘Why College Girls Do Not Please’: Women’s Higher Education Reflected in the Turn-of-the-Century Northern Periodical”

(Dr. Jeffrey McClurken, HIST 485: Historical Research).

 Tekla Taylor “Beauty, Subversion, and Skill: Gendered Iconography and the Self-Portraits of Artemisia Gentileschi and Sofonisba Anguissola”

(Dr. Allyson Poska, HIST 334: Early Modern European Women).

 Natural Science:

 Susanna Kirschner “The Effect of Mountain Top Removal on Stream Water Quality and the Surrounding Ecosystem”

(Dr. Melanie Szulczewki, EESC 330: Environmental Regulations and Compliance).

 College of Education and College of Business:

 Harrietta Chowbay-Cush “How Can Discovery Learning be Used to Increase Understanding in Secondary Biology?”

(Dr. Suzanne Houff, EDCI 589: Applied Research).

 James Kyle Snyder “Primal Leadership”

(Dr. Larry Penwell, LRSP 331: Organizational Behavior). (Honorable Mention)

 International:

 Dayheen (Lauren) Ji “To Succeed or to Be Happy: Both of Them are Needed”

            (Dr. Gwendolyn Hale, ENGL 307: The Writing Process). (Honorable Mention)