Welcome to the George Mason University Writing Center's Web Page. I believe that writing is central to all of our students' lives, and my intention as director is to make our free writing support services visibly front and center at the University. As part of our effort to expand our services and broaden our outreach, we are creating satellite tutoring sites, offering tutoring in the residence halls, creating partnerships with the University Library, the Alumni Association, and the Learning in Retirement Institute, and developing peer-tutoring initiatives. Of course, we continue to offer one-to-one tutorial sessions, OWL, specialized workshops on writing processes and techniques, support for individual courses, and an "in-depth" web page.
In addition to the Writing Center, Dr. Terry Myers Zawacki also directs
the University Writing Across the Curriculum Program. An English
and Women's Studies faculty member, she serves on the Provost's Committee
on
Admission, Transition, and Retention, the Composition Committee, the
WAC Committee, among others, and edits MATRIX, the Women's Studies Newsletter.
Prior to becoming Director of the Writing Center, she developed
and directed the CAS Linked Courses Program, a WAC-oriented general
education program.
Terry has presented papers and panels on WAC and Linked Courses at 4C's, WAC and Assessment conferences. Her article, "How Portfolios for Proficiency Help Shape a WAC Program," co-authored with Chris Thaiss, is included in WAC and Program Assessment, edited by Brian Huot and Kathleen Blake Yancey. In addition to her work on writing in-and-across disciplines, her scholarly interests focus on gender and writing. Her dissertation, an ethnographic study of academic women and their writing histories, is entitled Telling Stories: Gender, Writing, and Teaching Writing. Currently, she is co-authoring an article on Learning Communities and WAC, which will appear in WAC For a New Millennium.