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{{Group|
| name = Writing Workshop
| type = ServiceAcademic support service| selective = Yeshighly selective
| membership = 60
| meeting-time = Tuesdays 4 PM| meeting-place = 1964 Room of [[Hopkins Hall|Hopkins]]Wege Auditorium
| office = top floor of [[Sawyer]],<br />back of [[Schow]]
| contact -name = [[Godfrey Bakuli]]Andrés López| contact-unix =09arl@williams.edu
| listserver-url = http://listserv.williams.edu/
| website = http://www.williams.edu/dean/wws
| established = 1970?1972
}}
The Writing Workshop consists of about 60 students who are paid to privately tutor other students in writing and public speaking. After being nominated by a faculty member, candidates are interviewed by the Workshop's supervisor(s), and some are selected to become tutors the following school year. Supervised by Joyce Foster (who With minor oversight from the Academic Resource Center, the Workshop is assisted by Jean St. Jacques), and led this year by Noah Susskind Andrés López, Helen Hood, and Godfrey Bakuli, the workshop Fida-E Tashfia. It offers services students assistance in the following areas:
== Drop-in Shifts ==
The Workshop is open from 8 7:45 p.m. to midnight12:15 a.m., Sunday through Thursday in the back of [[Schow Science Library]] and on the top floor of [[Sawyer Library]]. You can sign up for a half-hour slot or just drop by and hope a tutor is available. This year's tutor schedule will be posted at the beginning of the fall semester.
Other services of the workshop require special arrangements. (Sorry, no drop-ins.) They are:
The speech workshop is for anyone who would like help with a presentation or public speech. Contact: Amanda Whiting.
 
== Senior moments ==
 
It is a Workshop tradition that a few meetings each year will be run by a senior member of the Workshop, who will use the period to share with the group an issue of tangential relation to peer editing.
 
One fondly remembered address, [http://wso.williams.edu/~emiller/Jerk.pdf How Not To Be a Jerk (pdf)], was given in 2004 by [[Evan Miller]] '06.
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