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Undergraduate Students

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The University Writing Center was founded in 1993 to help UT Austin students become more proficient, more versatile, and more confident writers. The UWC can help students from any major, with any writing project, at any point on their college career. Writers of all abilities come here to do what professional writers do: get another person’s response to their writing.

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Writing Appointments

To maximize support for online learning, we have lifted restrictions on the number of consultations students can have per semester. Find out more and schedule an appointment!

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Presentations

Request a presentation for your student organization or suggest that your teacher request one for your class.

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Resources

Find the full list of our resources on the main handouts page. A selection of undergrad-specific resources are listed below.

Mission

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Find out more about our mission to be inclusive and accessible to all UT students.

Employment

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Interested in working here? Find out about our job opportunities!

Accessibility

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Find out more about accessibility at the UWC.

Resources for Undergrads

Additional Resources

  1. ChatGPT & LLMs_2023
  2. Code-Switching and Code-Meshing
  3. College Writing Myths
  4. Entrepreneurship Resources
  5. Hire an Editor
  6. Peer Review (45-50min)
  7. Peer Review (45-50min) Presenter Template
  8. Psychology CVs
  9. RHE 306 Recommended Presentations Schedule
  10. Resources for Multilingual Writers
  11. Résumé-Writing Resources
  12. Song Starter Outline

Grammar, Usage, & Punctuation

  1. Clarity
  2. Definite and Indefinite Articles Flow Chart
  3. Eliminating Wordiness
  4. Resisting Clichés

Research Papers and Lab Reports

  1. Data Presentation
  2. Editing Lab Reports
  3. Lab Reports
  4. Paraphrasing
  5. Primary and Secondary Sources
  6. Steps for Writing a Research Paper
  7. Tips for Writing Lab Reports
  8. Using and Framing Direct Quotations
  9. Writing Lab Reports (45-50min)
  10. Writing Research Introductions
  11. Writing Research Papers (30-40min)

The Basics

  1. Avoiding Plagiarism (25-35 min)
  2. Avoiding Plagiarism (25-35 min) Activity
  3. Brainstorming
  4. Conclusions
  5. Final Revisions Checklist
  6. Grammarly Presentation (30-35 min)
  7. How to Edit Your Own Writing
  8. Introduction to the UWC (10-15 min)
  9. Introductions
  10. Writing in Process (15-30min)

Writing Guides

  1. Analyzing Poetry
  2. Art and Art History Papers: Formal Analysis and Comparative Analysis
  3. Close Reading Literature
  4. Cover Letters
  5. How to Construct and Format a Resume
  6. Making the Transition from High School to College Writing
  7. Personal Statements
  8. Personal Statements: Models for Generating Content
  9. Revising Essays and Research Papers (45-50min)
  10. Rhetorical Analysis
  11. Rhetorical Fallacies
  12. Sentence Clarity (45-50min)
  13. Transitioning from High School to University-Level Writing (45-50min)
  14. Writing Abstracts (45-50min)
  15. Writing Effective Internal Transfer Essays ( 35-45 min. )
  16. Writing Literature Reviews (25-35min)
  17. Writing Personal Statements (35-45min)
  18. Writing Resumes, CVs, and Cover Letters (45-50min)