The Writing Studio is Online and In-Person
The Writing Studio conducts our appointments both in-person and synchronously online. Please schedule the appointment type that best meets your needs. For online appointments, when it's time for your appointment, log into the scheduling software, click on your appointment slot, and click "start or join online conversation." You'll be able to share any writing you've done so far and to video-chat with your consultant.
About the Writing Studio
The TWP Writing Studio is dedicated to working with writers both within Duke and the broader Durham community. We facilitate writers' critical and creative thought through collaborative, non-evaluative consultations, workshops, writing groups, and events. In all of our work, we actively seek to support diverse, inclusive writing communities.
At the Writing Studio, you can meet with highly educated writing consultants to discuss your writing concerns. Discussing your work-in-progress with a writing consultant will help you develop the awareness and skills to improve as a writer.
Consultants help at any stage of a writing process – from brainstorming and researching to drafting, revising, and fine-tuning a final draft – on any text involving language, including presentations and posters.
Undergraduates may schedule a maximum of one appointment a day and two appointments a week, depending on availability; graduate students are asked to schedule a maximum of one appointment per week. Any writer is welcome to come more frequently for drop-in appointments.
Graduate student, upper-level undergraduate, and postgraduate, consultants from a variety of disciplines staff the Writing Studio. All consultants go through extensive and on-going education.
The Writing Studio and Generative AI
At its core, the Writing Studio values authorial growth, exploration, and learning, and we enact these values through conversations between writers. We recognize Generative AI’s potential as a supplement to the development of one’s writing process, but not as a replacement for a human-centered process.
We are committed to working with all writers, including those who use GAI, within the guidelines of their individual writing contexts, and we trust writers to take responsibility for working ethically within those guidelines. Consultants, however, are not obligated to use or discuss GAI in a writing consultation.
While we empower writers to choose whether they disclose GAI usage to us, we encourage transparency for the sake of collaborative and productive consultations. We do not disclose writers’ GAI usage to anyone outside the Writing Studio without writers’ permission.