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Welcome to the Norman H. Ott Memorial Writing Center

(located in Raynor Library, Room 240)

The writing center offers peer tutoring to all Marquette students, staff, and faculty working on any and all writing projects.

Individual Writing Consultations

The heart of what we do is meet with writers to talk, one-on-one, about writing in progress. You are welcome to bring anything from first year English papers to graduate theses, from history papers to personal statements for law school. No matter where you are in the writing process--even if you just don't know where to start--we can help.

We see writers in 30- or 60-minute sessions, and we recommend that you schedule your appointment ahead of time when possible. During especially busy weeks of the semester, our schedule gets booked up several days in advance!

Workshops for Writers

Beginning during the Spring 2012 semester, the Ott Memorial Writing Center will offer free workshops for writers on a variety of topics. More information will be provided as the semester begins, but workshops topics include

Writing Groups

Do you need to get more writing done but have trouble scheduling blocks of time? Do you find writing lonely and would you prefer to write in the company of other writers? Did you know that in a study conducted by Robert Boice, writers who wrote in regularly scheduled blocks (rather than waiting to feel inspired) produced three times as much text and reported enjoying writing more? Because many writers would benefit from more structure and less solitude as they write, we invite graduate student writers to participate in a new program being offered by the Ott Memorial Writing Center: graduate student writing groups.

These groups are free of charge and will begin during the Spring 2012 semester. We hope to offer similar writing groups to faculty and undergraduates in future semesters. For more information, contact us.

History

The writing center started in the mid-seventies with a CETA Grant and operated in Coughlin Hall, in the English Department. Still housed in the English Department, we moved first to Monitor Hall. In 2003 we moved to the Raynor Library.

In 1987, the family of Norman H. Ott endowed the writing center, in memory of Norman's great love of poetry, hoping to foster writing of all kinds at Marquette.

 

NEWS AND EVENTS

Congratulations to members of the Ott Memorial Writing Center staff who presented at the Midwest Writing Centers Association (Madison, Oct. 2011). And a special congratulations to Emily Shackleton who received a Travel Grant and Scholarship from the MWCA Executive Board.

Photo of Ott Memorial Writing Center staff

Left to right: Bryan Gast, Emily Shackleton, Erin Murphy, Rebecca Nowacek, Lindsay Swanson, Therese Bermingham, Sara Patek, and Beth Godbee.

CONTACT INFORMATION

For more information, contact:
Rebecca Nowacek, Director
Bryan Gast , Assistant Director

 

 


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