Academic Writing Resources
The University of Alberta offers a variety of writing supports that are accessible, learner-centred, relevant, and responsive to the diverse needs of the community. Every service and resource available to students, staff, and faculty works to support individual and collective academic success, career success, and citizenship.
Writing Centres and Services
The following services provide in-person support to students and/or faculty:
Academic Success Centre
Professional, individual appointments and workshops for undergraduate and graduate students (North Campus)
Augustana Writing Centre
Professional, one-on-one consultations and workshops for students (Augustana Campus).
Campus Saint-Jean La Centrale
Professional, individual consultations for students (Campus Saint-Jean)
Writing Services
Peer-supported individual appointments, workshops, and writing groups for students (North Campus)
Writing Across the Curriculum
Professional support for instructors to help students think critically and write clearly - delivered across all campuses.
Types of Writing Support
There are many courses that offer academic learning about writing, from entire degree programs to non-credit courses.
Degree Programs and Credit Courses
Communications and Technology Graduate Program (MACT, Faculty of Extension)
The Bridging Program for International Students
Certificate Programs and Non-Credit Courses
English Language (ESL, Faculty of Extension) Part-Time Programs
Contemporary writers can find a variety of reading series and writing workshops offered by the following services:
Individual appointments offer support that is personalized and tailored to a specific need or type of writing. One-on-one support is offered by:
In-person support is provided by the Writing Across the Curriculum Program to help instructors create well-designed writing assignments and effective grading guides.
Workshops are a cost-effective option to learn strategies in a specific area of writing (e.g. grammar, punctuation, conciseness). Writing workshops are offered by:
Graduate Student Writing Supports
The Academic Success Centre offers a copy editing service for graduate students, instructors, and professors for the following projects:
Masters or PhD theses dissertations
Final capstone projects
Documents for publication or career purposes
They also offer one-on-one consultations as well as seminars on writing for individuals with other documents. They DO NOT edit documents that will be submitted to be graded for a class.
Reboot Your Writing is a mini 20-minute writing session with a graduate writing professional. The sessions are open to graduate students in any discipline.
Tuesdays from 10 - 11:20 a.m. in Triffo Hall, across from the GSA front desk
Reboot Your Writing is jointly sponsored by the Academic Success Centre and the Graduate Students Association.
The following services provide in-person support to students through workshops, one-on-one consultations, or tutoring:
Augustana Writing Resources
Campus Saint-Jean La Centrale
Writing Services
Academic Success Centre
The Writing Services opens a limited number of spaces in four free advanced writing groups for international graduate students (with 10 students in each group).