Our monthly newsletter keeps instructors across campus informed about Writing Studio services, events, and resources both for their students and for instructors themselves.

The Writing Studio is here to support you and your students through the end of the fall semester. Following the Thanksgiving Holiday, writing consultations will be available through Friday, December 12.

After winter break, we reopen our doors on the first day of classes with writing consultations available starting Monday, January 5, through Wednesday, April 29. 

Dear Colleagues,

First, welcome new readers! We have added a number of spring 2026 instructors to our newsletter mailing list based on classes you are teaching next semester.

For readers both new and old, the Writing Studio is here to support your students and the important work you do as instructors who teach and assign writing. You play an essential role in connecting students with us each time you recommend our services, set up a Brief Writing Studio Introduction presentation, or request an In-Class Writing Workshop. I hope that this newsletter will help you keep the Writing Studio in mind and, as a result, on your students’ minds, as well.

If you would like to continue receiving the Writing Studio’s monthly faculty newsletter after April 2026, please take just a moment to opt in using the button below:

The Writing Studio Needs your Help: Two Calls for Nominations

Next, I'm using my note to ask for your help in a particular way: As the semester comes to a close, please consider nominating your strongest students and their strongest writing for the following opportunities (keep reading below for more information about both): 

Receiving your nomination will mean an awful lot to your students, and they help us identity and connect with students who are a good fit to present at the symposium and to help keep the Writing Studio going strong next academic year as a member of our dedicated staff.

Submitting a nomination takes just a few moments, and now you can nominate the same students for both opportunities simultaneously through our new, combined instructor nomination form.

Thank you!

John Bradley

Director, Writing Studio and Tutoring Services

john.bradley@vanderbilt.edu

Help us celebrate your students’ achievements as writers! We are seeking faculty nominations of strong undergraduate writing to be considered for inclusion in the 18th Annual Undergraduate Writing Symposium, which will be held Friday, March 27, 2025 in the Commons Center MPR.

Nomination Deadline: Friday, January 9, 2026.

The Writing Studio runs on peer-powered consulting, and we need your help to keep going strong. Nominate a student to join the Writing Studio’s staff as an Undergraduate Writing Consultant in 2026–2027.

Nominated students will be invited to submit an application for these paid positions. Applicants selected through our competitive process will join our staff in August 2026, earning $11.25 per hour.

Nomination Deadline: Friday, January 9, 2026.

Whether it's early or late, the Writing Studio can meet your students where (and when) they are. There's still time for a revision workshop on that last major paper, and we've already started fielding requests for Spring 2026 classroom visits. Get yours in today!

Our ten-minute introductory presentations offer all the essential details about the Writing Studio and help reassure students that friendly faces are here to help them. High impact for the class time required!

Writing consultants are available to lead workshops on specific elements of the academic writing process. Our standard workshops cover a variety of essential topics:

We can also work with you to develop a workshop tailored to your course's specific needs. Past custom topics have included case studies, literature reviews, podcasts, op-eds, and more.

The Writing Studio’s full-time administrative staff are available to discuss writing pedagogy: syllabus construction and development, writing assignment design, resources for student writing support, and more.

To schedule an appointment, please contact our Administrative Specialist by emailing writing.studio@vanderbilt.edu.

Theme: Why Write?

When: Friday, March 27, 3:00-6:15 PM

The Writing Studio invites any and all interested faculty to join us for the 18th Annual Undergraduate Writing Symposium to celebrate the reasons we write and why writing remains essential.

Event panels will put outstanding first-year writers in conversation with upper-division undergrads engaged in honors theses, independent study, and other advanced writing projects.

The full Symposium schedule will be available as the event approaches on the
UWS homepage.

The Writing Studio needs you! Students consistently report first hearing about the Writing Studio from their professors and TAs. Subscribe to our monthly MyEmma newsletter today to stay up to date with Writing Studio student-facing services and offerings.

The Writing Studio is also here for you, too! With highlights of our various resources for instructors, let our newsletter provide the right reminder at the right time as you prepare for next semester or that next writing assignment.

Finally, of course, our monthly newsletter will keep you in the loop about events and opportunities like our Undergraduate Writing Symposium, our Dissertation Writers' Retreat series, the Morgan Award for First-Year Writers, and more.

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