The Writing Place is a writing resource center for Northwestern students. Our consultants are talented undergraduates who are very good writers and who have been specially trained to help their peers at all stages of the writing process.
Consultants can also help writers evaluate, revise, and edit rough drafts.
Many writers visit the Writing Place two or three times in the process of writing a paper to get help at various stages. If a writer brings in a weak paper, the consutant will help that person understand the weakness and come up with a plan for developing a stronger approach. The Writing Place serves writers with varying levels of writing skill. Inexperienced writers benefit from learning how to develop a thesis and how to structure and support an argument or analysis. They can also learn how to correct their grammatical mistakes and improve their editing and proofreading skills.