Writing Center Consultations

Writing Center Consultants can help:

• Answer your questions about writing
• Talk through your challenges and/or worries about writing
• Provide space and time for you to focus on your paper
• Refer you to writing resources

Consultants also offer coaching on:

• Brainstorming ideas
• Crafting a thesis statement
• Organizing your notes and thoughts
• Narrowing down your ideas when you feel like you have too many
• Outlining your paper
• Grammar, style, and punctuation
• Citing in APA and Chicago styles
• Creating a schedule for completing your paper
• Developing a writing process that works for you

Note: Consultants are not available to read work in advance and will focus primarily on discussing, rather than reading, your work in progress. We do not copyedit, proofread, or check citations but will support and resource you towards editing your own work.

Click the link below to schedule a 40-minute appointment. The link will bring you to the Writing Center Google Calendar. Please book your slot at least 12 hours in advance of when you want to meet. We do our best to accommodate same-day appointment requests, but we can’t guarantee your slot unless you book at least 12 hours in advance.

If you don’t see an appointment time that works for you, please e-mail us at writing@theseattleschool.edu. While we can’t guarantee that we’ll be able to meet outside the hours posted on the calendar, we’ll do our best to find a time that fits your schedule.

Schedule an appointment with one of our Writing Consultants. 

Consultant Phil Doud
writing@theseattleschool.edu

Phil Doud graduated from The Seattle School in 2013 with his Master of Divinity and runs Heroically, a Life Coaching practice focused on helping people connect to their best self and build a thriving life. He has previously worked as a teacher and tutor, and at the school as an Assistant Instructor, Alumni Liaison, and Academic Advisor. His focus as a Writing Consultant is on helping students discover the unique processes that sustainably work for them to find their voice and integrate mind, heart, and spirit.

Consultant Cristin Fenzel
writing@theseattleschool.edu

A former attorney, Cristin Fenzel works as a writing coach, movement teacher, and teaching theater artist. Cristin coaches writing using a creative, uplifting approach. Through dynamic questioning, she coaches writers to develop their ideas, substantiate their arguments, and become thoughtful readers of their own work. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law. She holds a Certificate in Editing and a Certificate in Writing for Children, both from the University of Washington. With over 15 years of professional and academic writing experience, Cristin also loves using movement and games — many of them drawn from her theater and improvisation training — to help writers develop a process that works for them. If you think and write best by bouncing your ideas back and forth with someone, Cristin might be a good fit for you!

Schedule an appointment with one of our Writing Consultants. 

Any type of class assignment is something you can take to the Writing Center! The consultants can help you with group projects, class presentations, research papers, reflection writing, and much more.

Writing Center Consultants are happy to help you brainstorm ideas, help you work out a good plan for writing, or read through drafts with you of papers for your courses. However, because they are not in your courses, Writing Center Consultants cannot assist you with course-specific concerns such as interpreting assignments or answering specific questions about what your instructors expect. If you have course-specific questions, such as needing further clarification on course topics, definitions of terms, or a specific assignment’s rubric, Assistant Instructors are better positioned to help you.