University's Center for Excellence in Writing (UCEW)

Mission Statement

The University Center for Excellence in Writing supports and promotes writing for all members of the Â鶹ŮÀÉ community -- undergraduate and graduate students, staff, faculty and visiting scholars.The center's consultants are informed and sensitive readers who help writers become more reflective readers and more self-sufficient crafters of their written work. Consultants help writers at any point in the writing process (i.e., brainstorming, drafting, revising) and with papers for courses, senior or master theses, dissertations, job applications, applications for graduate school, articles for publication, grant proposals and other documents. We provide writing aid rather than an editing service. Consequently, consultants may not get to all of a paper's issues, but writers will come away with a fresh perspective on their work as well as documents in which one or more aspects are improved.

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Center Locations

Boca Raton Campus

Room 215. General Classroom South (GS).

Phone: 561-297-3498
Email: ucew@fau.edu
Address:

Jupiter Campus

Room 202 B. John D. MacArthur Campus Library

Phone: 561-297-3498
Email: ucew@fau.edu
Address:

Center Hours

Boca Campus Hours (in-person and live online):
Monday - Thursday: 8:45 AM - 5:00 PM, Friday: 8:45 AM - 4:15 PM.

Evenings online:

Monday - Thursday: 5:45 PM - 8:00 PM, Friday: 5:45 PM - 7:15 PM.
Weekend online hours are available, but limited.
Schedule an appointment online by selecting the "Boca Schedule Spring 2026" schedule.

For scheduling assistance, please contact our front desk assistants at ucew@fau.edu or by phone at 561-297-3498.

For additional questions and inquiries, please contact the center's administrative team:

Dr. Sipai Klein
UCEW Director
kleins@fau.edu
561-297-1221

Joseph D. Precanico
UCEW Assistant Director
jprecani@fau.edu
561-297-3498

Writing Consultations

Conferences will vary according to the writing project. Consultants can help clients:

  • unpack difficult readings
  • understand assignments
  • generate and clarify ideas
  • flesh out weak or biased arguments
  • understand documentation and citation practices
  • follow task-appropriate format
  • develop strategies for identifying patterns of error that can be tracked and proofread for conformity to American academic English
  • provide expert perspectives for creative projects

We provide writing aid rather than an editing service. Consequently, consultants write with, not for writers. Furthermore, consultants may not get to all of a paper's issues, but writers will come away with a fresh perspective on their work and documents that are improved in one or more aspects.

We encourage all writers to take advantage of this free service to interact with other writers, gain perspective on their own work, and further develop strategies in reading and writing for all writing projects.

We welcome suggestions for improving our services.

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FAQ

Writing consultants help writers at any point of the writing process (i.e. brainstorming, drafting, revision) with a variety of documents: papers for courses, senior or master theses, dissertations, job applications, applications for graduate school, articles for publication, grant proposals, course syllabi, among other documents.
Consultants help writers understand assignments, generate ideas, and flesh out weak or biased arguments.
Consultants help writers identify and address patterns of error in sentence structure, mechanics, grammar, and documentation format, as well as share proven proofreading strategies.
Consultants will provide consultations for creative writers and their writing projects.

Our services are available to all members of the Â鶹ŮÀÉ community: full- and part-time undergraduate and graduate students, staff, faculty, and visiting scholars.

Services are provided by nationally certified Â鶹ŮÀÉ graduate assistants and peer consultants.

Our main Boca site is located in the General Classroom South (GS) room 215.
The Jupiter site is located in room 146B of the Student Resources Building

Please, log in to our scheduling system using . Once you log in, you will be able to see our schedule through the end of the semester for all sites.
In general, the UCEW main center on the Boca Campus is open Monday-Thursday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, Friday from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. We do offer limited evening and weekend, live online appointments. Please note that we cannot guarantee available appointments during operating hours since the majority of our appointments are booked in advanced through the online schedule system. However, we do take walk-ins if consultants do not have an appointment scheduled.
Hours at Jupiter vary by semester and consultant availability.

Please go to our website to make an appointment .
In order to see all availabilities for all tutors in the next two weeks, only choose your center and your section (class) and just click search. Do not edit any of the other parameters.
We do work with writers on a walk-in basis, but writers with appointments are helped before walk-ins.

You should bring a copy of your assignment/task, your current draft and disc, and any relevant texts and/or articles.
If you are referred to the UCEW, be sure to bring the draft containing your instructor's comments.

Services are free to all students, staff, faculty, and visiting scholars.