Virtual Writing Center: About the VWC
About
The VWC provides free peer feedback on writing for Antioch University students. We support your writing process from start to finish!
Click here to submit writing for feedback
First time visitor? Click here for instructions
Have questions about the process or technical issues submitting? Contact us by email or voicemail! Email us at vwc@antioch.edu, or leave us a voicemail at 937.769.1355.
- Outlining and Planning: Submit your outlines and notes for feedback on ideas.
- Major Revision: Submit your initial drafts, and even incomplete drafts, for big picture feedback on thesis, structure, organization, integration of sources, and so on.
- Minor Revision: Submit your 2nd or 3rd drafts to work on paragraph structure, clarity, conciseness, syntax, and other sentence-level questions.
- Style and Polish: Submit your near-final drafts for suggestions about APA or MLA, word choice, grammar, and other procedural edits.
Page art by Julie Fortney, VWC Peer Consultant
Overview
VWC Mission and Philosophy:
The VWC strives to support Antioch students throughout their programs by welcoming and supporting all writers to express themselves in their academic work. Our feedback is structured around peer readership to foster collaborative learning, and framed with the principle of respecting individual writers and voices. The VWC is committed to language diversity and furthering antiracism at Antioch by understanding and advocating against linguistic discrimination. Similarly, the VWC is committed to inclusive support for writers of all abilities by adapting our feedback to writers’ individual needs. Finally, the VWC is dedicated to ongoing growth in our own practice and to confidentiality in our feedback to writers.
First Time Users
Ready to submit your work? Click here: Submit Your Writing
Haven’t used the system before? Follow the steps below:
1. To get started, you first need to create an account in Submittable using your Antioch Gmail account as the e-mail. Go to https://vwc.submittable.com/signup and enter your Antioch Gmail address, the password you would like, and your first and last name.
2. That’s it! Once you’ve created an account you can go to to https://vwc.submittable.com/submit to send in your writing for feedback. Use the First Submission form if this is the first time you are submitting a given piece of writing, or use the Second and Third submission forms to submit revised drafts.
3. One thing to be careful of: Submittable is a platform used by lots of organizations beyond Antioch. To submit writing for Antioch, you’ll need to use the link to our forms at https://vwc.submittable.com/submit; don’t send your paper using the “Create Universal Submission” link from Submittable.com, as that tool is not part of our system.
Other questions? Check out How to Submit and What to Expect, or send us an e-mail.