University Writing Program
The Duke University Writing Program (UWP) supports students as academic writers in three ways.
In Writing 20, Academic Writing, first-year students learn to read critically and to make effective use of what they’ve read in their own work as writers. Intimate seminars of 12 students are taught by postdoctoral fellows with experience in fields ranging from epidemiology and archeology to history and sociology. Each fall, the UWP publishes Deliberations, a journal of some of the best student essays from Writing 20.
The Writing in the Disciplines (WID) Program promotes upper-level courses with an emphasis on writing offered by departments across Trinity College, and supports faculty and graduate student instructors in designing assignments and responding to the writing of their students.
The trained professionals in our Writing Studio provide free one-on-one tutoring for students working on writing for any course they are taking at Duke. They help with any aspect of the writing process—from brainstorming to researching, drafting, revising, and polishing a final draft.
The Duke UWP received a 2006 Writing Program Certificate of Excellence from the Conference on College Composition and Communication.
