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Sweetland Center for Writing
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Recent News
A Look at Sweetland's 2026 Spring Course Offerings
New and interesting topics for Writing 160: Multimodal Composition, and Writing 200/201: Writing in Digital & Social Media.
Interested in joining the Sweetland Minor in Writing in Fall 2026?
The deadline to apply to the Minor in Writing for Fall 2026 is Monday, March 23rd. Attend an info session to learn more and for tips on applying.
Writing Support Quicklinks ✍️
Events
Mar
16
Multi
Minor in Writing Info Session
5:00 PM
Virtual
Mar
22
Dream of Being a Raindrop Launch Party and Reading
Michigan Review of Prisoner Creative Writing, Volume 18
3:00 PM
Chesebrough Auditorium
Chrysler Center
Mar
23
Minor in Writing Application Deadline
12:00 PM
Virtual
Mar
27
What Is My “Academic” Voice?
Rackham/Sweetland Workshops on Writing
11:00 AM
Earl Lewis Room, 3rd floor
Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Apr
06
Citations Beyond “Playing the Game:” Building a Robust Citation Policy
Rackham/Sweetland Workshops on Writing
1:30 PM
Earl Lewis Room, 3rd floor
Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
About Us
The Sweetland Center for Writing, a comprehensive writing center, exists to support student writing at all levels and in all forms and modes. Sweetland oversees the College of LSA’s First-Year and Upper-Level writing requirements, offers one-to-one tutoring for undergraduate and graduate students in our faculty-led Writing Workshop and undergraduate Peer Writing Center, and teaches writing courses from the undergraduate to the graduate level. Sweetland provides support for all multilingual and international undergraduate students. Sweetland offers the Minor in Writing, teaches and supports new media and multimodal forms of writing, and runs the invitational Dissertation Writing Institute and Fellows Seminar. Sweetland offers consultations and workshops for instructors and students across the University, and conducts research on writing.
