UCD Writing Center Mission Statement
UCD seeks to provide students, whatever their ages or circumstances, with opportunities to enhance their lives and careers through higher education. The UCD Writing Center supports that purpose by equipping our community of writers (students, staff, faculty, alumni) with the necessary skills of composition to expand their academic opportunities and further their careers. We view writing as a process and all texts as works in progress. We build confident and accomplished writers through the development of strong cognitive and writing abilities. Ideally, the ultimate outcome of any session in the Writing Center is that the writer is improved, not necessarily the text. Our mission is to empower writers through collaborative work.
Our services include one-on-one and small-group writing consultations in areas such as:
- Generating, organizing and developing ideas
- Establishing effective proofreading skills
- Analysis, synthesis and argument
- Summary, paraphrase and documentation
- Understanding error pattern analysis
- Information literacy and research strategies
Our consultants are here to work with writers on any type of written work—scholarship applications, personal statements, resumes, engineering reports, critical essays, article reviews, creative writing submissions, theses, statements of purpose, dissertations, senior projects, biology lab reports, grants and proposals, artist statements, public speaking outlines and graduate school applications.
The UCD Writing Center is also dedicated to serving the faculty and staff of the Auraria Campus. We host and sponsor professional development seminars every year for faculty, staff and the teaching community. These professional development seminars offer strategies to incorporate writing across the curriculum, scaffold writing assignments, and create effective rubrics and methods for writing assessment. The Writing Center also maintains a small library on writing theory and praxis available to all members of the UCD community.
