Collection

2023 PSW

Authors

Helen Choi

trained writing consultants forone-on-one tutoring and offer various professional career and mentoring workshops,retreats, and student-led writing groups. Research suggests that GWCs can helpstudents cultivate professional skills and can provide emotional support in anenvironment that can often be isolating. Such services offered by GWCs have beenshown to supplement writing coursework in shortening the duration of doctoral degreecompletion and attrition rates in Ph.D. programs.As over half of engineering graduate students are from outside the U.S., GWCs thatserve this group must also offer support for students developing academic literacy inEnglish. This sometimes involves embracing approaches traditionally disavowed bymany writing centers, such