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Virtual Writing Center

 

Welcome to the Virtual Writing Center

The VWC provides free peer feedback on writing for Antioch University students. We support your writing process from start to finish!
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  • 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 feedback.
  • Style and Polish: Submit your near-final drafts for suggestions about APA or MLA, word choice, grammar, and other procedural edits.

Log in here to submit your writing.

First time using the VWC? Click here instructions on how to make an account.

Have questions about the process or technical issues submitting? Contact us by email or voicemail! Email us at [email protected], or leave us a voicemail at 937.769.1355.

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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.

Read our full mission and philosophy statement here.

Announcements: Winter and Spring

The VWC is open for submissions as usual! Happy 2022, and stay safe.

 

How to Submit Your Work

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Use the “Submit Your Writing” menu on the top right (desktop) or bottom (tablet and mobile) to access the VWC system and send in your work for comments. For details about parts of the process, check out the links below:

New Resources: Tips for Virtual Meetings

This resource offers a few tips for an effective virtual session:

Nearly all Antioch University programs transitioned to APA 7th Edition as of January 2020. Below are three resources to help you understand the new Student Writing guidelines, and the specific changes in 7th Edition as compared to 6th Edition:

The Writer’s Toolkit: My Cure for Writing Anxiety

When I first entered graduate school for counseling, I was intimidated by the amount of writing that I knew would be expected of me. After graduating with my bachelor’s degree almost twelve years ago, I swore I would never write another paper again! (Yes, even dance majors are expected to write a lot of papers.)

Even though I consider myself a strong writer, big projects tend to loom over my head, and the debilitating anxiety makes it hard for me to get started. I took the Writing in Psychology course during my first year at Antioch and not only did it help me nail down APA, I also learned about the magic of combining the practices of freewriting and outlining.

I know those sound like two opposite things but, for me, one balances out the other nicely. In my opinion, creating outlines based on the criteria of the assignment helps break it into manageable chunks. Here is a handy template I use for creating an outline. Then, freewriting within that context generates material. From there, the refining and feedback process takes over. (Shoutout to the VWC!)

I felt such a relief when my professor accepted either a freewrite or an outline as a first draft. My inner perfectionist felt that a first draft needed to consist of organized and coherent thoughts. It never occurred to me that papers can be written in baby steps. Now I have a failsafe formula that I use for almost any paper I write, and I find it useful in providing feedback for my peers at the virtual writing center.

How do you manage writing anxiety?

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Amanda Timm
Virtual Writing Center Peer Consultant
Antioch University

The Writer’s Toolkit Archives:
Tips from the VWC Staff

Visit the VWC Writer’s Toolkit Archive

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