Support for Courses, Instructors, and Graduate Supervisors

What do students tell us? Your recommendation as an instructor and graduate supervisor matters to students. When you tell students about the WCC, they’re more likely to use our services and resources.

When students work with the WCC, they start assignments and projects earlier, and they revise their work before handing it in. This ensures that you receive more well thought out and polished submissions.

Tell your students about the WCC

Use WCC services to support you and your students

Student Appointments

WCC appointments are spaces for formative feedback and reflection on writing and communication design processes.
With our help, students articulate goals, engage in active learning, and strengthen their skills and strategies for the long term.
We help undergraduate students understand assignment instructions and rubrics. We guide and give them feedback while they plan, draft, and revise.
We help graduate students with more advanced communication tasks in their specific disciplines by providing guidance and feedback, helping them create manageable processes for long-term projects, and advising on presenting and publishing.
Our advisors and tutors preserve academic integrity by ensuring that the ideas and writing/design developed through an appointment are always the student’s own work.

Self-registered Workshops

The WCC has over 30 online interactive workshops to help your students succeed in their assignments and other writing and communication projects. These workshops cover a variety of topics related to academic writing and communication, from planning writing projects (great for grad students working on a thesis) to drafting specific genres (like critical analyses, literature reviews, or proposals) and other tasks like revising, giving and getting peer feedback, and designing engaging presentations. You and your students can access all our workshops by self-registering for “WCC Workshops” on LEARN.

In-class and custom workshops

Custom course-integrated workshops are built with your input and participation for a specific assignment or skill development. A WCC staff member will work with you to facilitate the workshop in person or online (live and asynchronous workshops available) to support your students, research group, or lab.
In-person and asynchronous workshops are available for Arts First (Arts 130 and Arts 140) courses. Contact Elise Vist to learn more.

Resources

WCC online resources are tip sheets covering a range of topics on style, genre, and process across disciplines. You can include them as course content or encourage students to use them on their own.

Graduate Student Programs

Encourage your graduate students to join WCC’s graduate programs for:
Thesis planning and preparation
Thesis drafting and revising
Scholarly talks and presentations

Additional expertise

We are ready to consult to support your teaching and supervision on a range of topics and help connect you to other experts on campus:
Designing writing/communication assignments
Advising on writing assignments and GenAI
Supporting graduate student writers for theses, presentations, and publication