Graduate Writing Center

The Graduate Writing Center at TCU offers assistance to graduate students from all academic disciplines. Consultants often work by appointment with graduate students on course essays, theses, funding proposals, dissertations, as well as book proposals or manuscripts.

We offer three flexible ways to get feedback on your writing.

 GRADUATE WRITING CONSULTANTS 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 IN-PERSON APPOINTMENTS 

• • Booking: Select your appointment length based on your page count.
  • Arrival: Arrive at our NEW OFFICE- Room 1160 in the TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library 10 minutes early to check in at the front desk and print out your paper.
  • Late Policy: If you are more than 10 minutes late, your appointment will be canceled for another student.
  • Cancellations: Cancel ahead of time if you cannot make it. Three no-shows will automatically deactivate your account.

 ZOOM APPOINTMENTS 

• • Booking: Select the Zoom schedule from the dropdown menu. Choose your length based on your page count. Upload your document when booking.
  • How to Join: A few minutes before your start time, log into the scheduler, click your appointment box, and click the consultant’s Zoom link to enter their waiting room.
  • Late Policy: If you are more than 10 minutes late, your appointment will be canceled for another student.
  • Cancellations: Cancel ahead of time if you cannot make it. Three no-shows will automatically deactivate your account.

 ONLINE SUBMISSIONS 

Follow these steps to submit your document via WCOnline:

1. 1. Save your document to your desktop as a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx) or a .PDF file.
   2. Click on the “Appointment” tab at the top of this page.
   3. Log in to the Center for Writing scheduler:
      • Select the “Online Submissions Summer 2026” option at the login prompt.
      • First time user? Select “Register for an account” option, proceed through the prompts, and choose your @tcu.edu email as the registration email. Then login to the scheduler.
   4. Select a date: On the scheduler, click the white box for for the day you are submitting.
      

      WCOnline schedule with white submission box open.

   5. Complete the “Create New Appointment” form. Neglecting to include the necessary information, including group member names, may delay our ability to review your draft in a timely manner, which is within 2 business days.
   6. Attach your file(s). One essay/draft per submission per day. Do not include multiple essays/drafts in one document.
   7. Submit your request: Click the “Create Appointment” button at the bottom of the of the form.
   8. Confirmation: You will receive an email verifying your submission.
   9. Feedback: Once your submission has been reviewed, you will receive a notification email from WCOnline.

You will receive an automated email verifying your submission, followed by a notification email from WCOnline once your consultant’s feedback is ready.

 ACADEMIC INTEGRITY & OUR EDITING PHILOSOPHY 

Our goal is to help you grow into an independent writer and editor, not just to perfect a single assignment.

We do… provide feedback on organization, content, source documentation, and sentence-level patterns. If we notice repeating errors, we will teach you how to identify and fix them.

We do not… rewrite your paper for you, offer grade estimates, or critique your professors’ prompts. Likewise, we are not a copyediting or proofreading service.

 THESIS AND DISSERTATION WRITERS RETREATS 

The Center for Writing conducts writers retreats for students working on theses and dissertations. Interested students can follow us on Facebook  and Instagram or notification of these dates, locales, and times. For more information, contact us at 817-257-7221 or writingctr@tcu.edu.