Cornell Writing Centers, Summer 2026
Cornell Writing Centers will start tutoring on Monday, June 22, 2026. Appointments are required during the summer.
Submitting FWS Grades
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Write Together at Home Program: Summer Writing Support for Postgraduates
The Write Together at Home Program provides graduate students, professional students, and postdocs with community, structure, and resources to support their writing. This fully-online program is designed to help you establish writing practices and peer writing networks that will sustain your writing throughout the summer.
Finals Focus | Settle In & Study @ Mann & Olin Libraries
Join us for a study-week program designed to help you stay motivated and make meaningful progress on your final assignments! During this structured three-hour session, we will follow the Pomodoro technique, with focused work periods and scheduled breaks to help you maintain concentration and avoid burnout. Tutors from the Learning Strategies Center and the Cornell…
FWS Instructor Reflection
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Ask an ambassador: How my first-year writing seminar enriched my four years
Cornell student and Arts & Sciences Ambassador Leah Condon talks about choosing to double-major in psychology as a result of taking a first-year writing seminar on female pain.
Knight Prizes & Awards Celebrate Teaching and Learning
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
A Student-Teacher Conversation about Using GenAI
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
It's a Good Time to Collect Midterm Feedback
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Supporting Students in Distress
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Graduate Writing Service Tutors Accepting Appointments
Graduate Writing Service tutors are experienced writers and teachers of writing from multiple disciplines -- with scholarly and professional backgrounds in the humanities and social and physical sciences. Some of us are also instructors of languages other than English.
One-on-One Consultations on Responding to Student Writing
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Your January 2026 reads
This month’s featured titles include poetry, an anthropologist’s memoir, and a chronicle of the Nazi’s massive looting of European artworks.
Season's Greetings & Winter Break Events
Knight Institute faculty and staff wish you a safe and healthy semester break filled with warm and wonderful moments that bring you comfort and joy! And for those working on writing projects, be merry and write!
The ‘Process’ of Planning: Your Spring 2026 First Year Writing Seminar
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Finals Focus | Settle In & Study @ Mann Library
Join Mann Library for a study-week program designed to help you stay motivated and make meaningful progress on your final assignments! During this structured three-hour session we will follow the Pomodoro technique, with focused work periods and scheduled breaks to help you maintain concentration and avoid burnout. Tutors from the Learning Strategies Center and the…
Teaching Science Writing and Climate Change
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Take a BREAK with ELSO!
Take a Break with ELSO on Thursday, December 4 at 4:30-6:30pm at the Big Red Barn! Join us for pizza, games, and relax with friends, new and old!
Deterring Overreliance on A.I. in FWSes
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Accepting Applications: BUTTRICK-CRIPPEN ASSISTANTSHIP
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Summoning religion, mythology and memory ‘Within the Shop of the Divine’
A Saint Anthony statue that glows in the dark lights the way into poems that connect people beyond death, visit holy sites, consider Satanic bargains and consult astrology.
Academic integrity and generative AI focus of PWGIA event
A keynote and faculty panel on Nov. 12 will focus on how faculty can communicate their generative AI-related expectations to students, how students can take accountability for their work, and what this looks like in practice.
Filing Academic Concern Letters: What you might not know, or might not have thought about
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Am I even supposed to be here?
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Graduate Writing Service | The difference between barely writing and BEARLY writing
Graduate Writing Service tutors are experienced writers and teachers of writing from multiple disciplines -- with scholarly and professional backgrounds in the humanities and social and physical sciences. Some of us are also instructors of languages other than English.
Fall Holidays and Jewish Students
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Puzzling Essays to Prepare FWS Students for Peer Review
I am often asked about a favorite activity from my bulging Teacher’s Toolkit. Here is a never-fail half-class activity that can be adapted for nearly any FWS.
Email, Ghosting, and Your Syllabus
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Quickly Orienting New FWS Students
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Expecting, and Accepting, Fluctuating FWS Enrollment
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Welcome, FWS Students!
The John S. Knight Institute, one of the oldest and most interdisciplinary undergraduate writing programs in the world, invites you to join our community of Big Red Writers.
Welcome FWS Instructors!
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Knight Prize & Award Winners 2024
The Adelphic Award went to Hedy Song for “Chaozhou Theatre Reform and China’s Cultural Diplomacy During the Cold War.”
Outstanding faculty win 2025 teaching and advising awards
Among those being recognized for exceptional teaching and mentorship this year are faculty members Begüm Adalet, Claudia Verhoeven, and Marcelo Aguiar.
Two Ways to Start Preparing for the End of the Fall Semester
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Knight Institute creates ‘culture of writing’ on campus
The institute coordinates the Cornell Writing Centers, Graduate Writing Service, writing workshops, first-year writing seminars and other programs.
Slowing down with my turtle teacher
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Teaching Writing with Generative AI
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
FWS Teaching Days: Visit a colleague's writing class
Current and Future FWS Instructors are invited to visit a current FWS classroom over the coming weeks as part of Knight’s FWS Days. As the semester moves forward, writing classrooms across Cornell are alive with drafts being read, revised, and rewritten with increased clarity and polish. Students and teachers are implementing new skills in their…
Join a Write-In!
Need to get some writing done? Write-ins are a great way to move your writing project forward.
AI Workshop for FWS Instructors
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Cornell Writing Centers: Tutors can help writers use AI ethically and responsibly
The Cornell Writing Centers opens this week! As always, writers can drop in to one of our five campus locations or make appointments here: https://cornell.mywconline.net/ Spring 2025 ScheduleSundays-Thursdays, 7:00-9:00pm403 Olin Library108 Uris LibraryB06 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall (this is in a first-year dorm)Online Mondays-Thursdays, 3:00-5:00pm178 Rockefeller HallMann Library Consultation Area Writing and AICWC tutors have…
FWS Instructor Reflection
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Self-Advocacy: Resources for Students
Cornell University strives to create pedagogical spaces that are inclusive and equitable for all Cornell community members, including students who use English as an additional language. The English Language Support Office at Cornell University recently launched a webpage to promote this goal. Students can use the resources compiled here to self-advocate for pedagogical conditions that…
Recent Events
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Writing Workshop for FWS Students | Revising Your Writing for Clarity
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
Election Resources
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Concerned about a Student? Academic Advising Should be Your First Stop, and Your Student’s First Stop
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…
AI-Generated Food Reviews Leave FWS Students Hungry for More
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EVENT Notice and Respond: Assisting Students in Distress program
The KNIGHTLYnews is an online forum where FWS instructors and other teachers of writing can swap and share ideas for best classroom practice. Weekly posts are designed to help teachers develop lesson plans and writing assignments, and respond to classroom challenges by introducing new teaching tools and sharing emerging pedagogical ideas. Posts also direct readers…