The Writing Center opens on Tuesday, Sept. 4 on a temporary schedule for that week only. Click on the button below to make an appointment for that week.
Starting on Saturday, September 8, our regular reservation system will be available and that that time, students may make appointments to visit the Writing Center using the “Schedule” button below. You can sign up for one conference in a seven-day period and no more than 21 days in advance. Space is limited, so you are encouraged to sign up well in advance of your desired appointment time.
Submit a draft of the writing project you wish to discuss, including an agenda of key topics you want to discuss at least 24 hours in advance of your appointment (48 hours in advance for scholarly writing projects). You can submit the draft by locating the Writing Fellow’s email using the Google doc that opens if you click on the hypertext link (Learn more about the Writing Fellows), which can be found on the Writing Fellows webpage. Do not upload directly to TutorTrac.
The Writing Center, a component of the Legal Research and Writing Program, offers one-on-one writing conferences, multi-person workshops, videos, tip sheets, and other resources to legal writers of any class year and ability.
The Writing Center is staffed by approximately 45 Writing Fellows, who are upper-level law students with strong writing and analysis skills. Writing Fellows are trained to work with writers at any stage of the writing process, from brainstorming and outlining, to developing the structure of a legal analysis, to publishing a near-finished product. The goal of each writing conference is to help student writers become skilled and critical readers of their own writing.
Writing Fellows do not spell-check, grammar-check, cite-check, or proofread. Instead, they help students develop strategies for recognizing global problems in their work.
To learn more about the Writing Center, please review its Policies.
The Writing Center welcomes all law students, including:
1Ls working on LRW assignments
Students working on writing samples
2Ls and 3Ls working on seminar papers or journal notes*
LLMs working on theses*
Students working on papers for skills competitions*
*You must confirm with your professor or skills board advisor that you are permitted to use the Writing Center.
Policies
All Writing Center conferences are governed by the Writing Center Policies. Students are responsible for reviewing the following Policies document in advance of their first Writing Center conference.
The Writing Center is directed by Professor Iselin Gambert, who joined the faculty in 2009. A graduate of GW Law, she served as a Writing Fellow for two years as a law student.
