A cornerstone of intellectual inquiry, writing is at the heart of a liberal arts education. At Pomona, writing and the teaching of writing are college-wide enterprises. The College Writing program offers resources to help faculty and students create vibrant communities of readers and writers across campus and beyond.
The CSWIM at Pomona provides students with a community of experienced readers and writers, offering free, one-on-one consultations at any stage of the writing process. The CSWIM Partners who staff the CSWIM are Pomona sophomores, juniors, and seniors majoring in subjects as varied as English, politics, environmental analysis, neuroscience and physics. They are trained to work with writers at all stages of the writing process and on assignments in any discipline.
If you are interested in a series of appointments with the same Partner on a regular basis (weekly or bimonthly), you can request a Regular CSWIM Partner by emailing the CSWIM.
Consultation are free and confidential; all Pomona students are welcome. Although the CSWIM is not a proofreading or editing service, we can help writers learn strategies for diagnosing and improving sentence-level issues. Meetings with the Writing Partners can help students not only improve particular essays but also develop new strategies for writing and revising their work. These consultations complement – but do not replace – the advice students receive from their professors.
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