The Writing Center is part of the Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Writing Institute. Our mission is to support writers from the across the university. The Center is staffed by experienced consultants who have been trained to help others with their writing. We can help you with conventional or digital projects. The services are free to all University of Pittsburgh affiliates.
Services Provided by the Writing Center
- We work with writers one-on-one, providing individualized and supportive feedback.
- We run the Writers' Café, a free writing workshop offered many times throughout the semester for anyone interested in creative writing. Workshop leaders are often local, published authors. Please visit our Writers' Café page to learn more about what the Café offers.
- We support a peer tutoring program that allows Pitt undergraduate students to learn about writing and teaching and provides them the opportunity to tutor students who come to the Center. For additional information about the program, visit our peer tutoring program page.
- We teach Composition Tutorial, a one-credit course, offered only to students in Seminar in Composition. SC Students who register for CT receive a one-on-one session with a consultant every week.
- We teach Workshop Tutorial, a two-credit course designed to support students in Workshop in Composition and Workshop in Composition: ESL. WT students meet with their consultant every week for a 50-minute session.
- For graduate students, we support five-day Project Camps, one-day Project Workshops, and Writing Days in collaboration with the Writing Institute -- along with one-to-one tutoring sessions.
- We do not provide drop-off proofreading or editing services. Our sessions are collaborative with an emphasis on teaching and learning.
- Please be sure to bring your laptop/tablet or a paper copy of your project to your sessions.