Take on an active writing facilitator role as a Writing Colleague. You’ll serve as a bridge between faculty and students in a designated course by helping develop course materials, providing feedback related to student writing and helping students with their writing process. Regardless of your major, you can apply to be a Writing Colleague and use the experience toward a writing colleagues minor. Whether it’s walking through the brainstorming process or revising a first or second draft, you can help improve your fellow students’ writing. In the process, you will become a better, more engaged writer yourself.
"The Writing Colleagues program is a place where I get to share my love of writing with my peers and try to help them grow as individuals in this process. Additionally, being a Writing Colleague has allowed me to get to know students on a personal level. My experience as a Writing Colleague has taught me so many things, from time management to communication, all of which are applicable to my life outside of college."
At HWS, Writing Colleagues, and students more broadly, have multiple ways to engage their passion for writing. Work as an editor for The Herald or participate in writers workshops with the Trias Writer in Residence. Volunteer with America Reads to help local children build their literacy skills or with the Boys & Girls Club of Geneva through the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning.
Writing Colleagues often transfer their experience to the Writing Fellows program with the Center for Teaching and Learning. A paid position, Writing Fellows help students from across disciplines hone their writing process.
At Hobart and William Smith, learning goes beyond textbooks and classrooms. You’ll gain high-impact practical experience that deepens learning and opens doors, such as working as a social media intern for the Seneca Review or working as a summer research assistant with professors in the Writing and Rhetoric department.
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Study travel writing in Rome or cultural production in Ireland.
Wherever you go, our top-ranked global education program will allow you to apply classroom knowledge, develop cultural understanding and build global connections that expand your personal capacity and sense of purpose.
Because writers arrive with a unique set of lived experiences and unique relationships to standardized academic English, Writing Colleagues support ways of knowing and writing that are based in a diverse set of language and cultural traditions and practices.
What this means is that Writing Colleagues meet you where you are. Whether or not you’re confident in your abilities as a first-year student or you’re finalizing a sociology research project for Senior Symposium week, Writing Colleagues seek to understand “the who” that comes through in your writing.
In order to feel a sense of belonging, each of us must be heard and understood through the ways we communicate, and it is through these expressions that Writing Colleagues find ways to support both developing as well as more experienced writers as they seek to become who they want to be.
Explore a diverse set of theories and paths in the Writing Colleagues program.
Read and discuss scholarship pertaining to linguistic diversity, multilingual writers, and the emerging scholarship on curriculum-based peer tutors in this entry course into the Writing Colleagues program.
Strengthen your science writing skills by producing weekly articles and reading and discussing science articles by major science writers.
Develop yourself as a Writing Colleague by being placed in a course and working with faculty to develop writing activities, reading student essays and working with student writers.
Help publish a book through engaging in the acquisitions editorial process.
Major: English
Minor: Writing Colleagues Program
"I wouldn't be going to graduate school if it wasn't for the fantastic faculty in the English department and the Writing Colleagues program. The professors at HWS really care about their students and are so supportive, as is the broader campus community. I am so grateful that I had the chance to pursue my interests, gain an interdisciplinary education, and challenge myself while at the Colleges. I have also loved working as a student writer at the Office of Communications, which has been such a great opportunity to gain valuable work experience."
