Writing Centre Learning Objectives

This is a short statement of learning objectives for a student in any writing support appointment at a university writing centre (MSVU). This statement was part of an initiative by the Mount’s Centre for Academic Advising and Student Services, in conjunction with the Office of Student Experience, to consider and define in plain language the value and aims of each academic support – for student clarity as well as transparency and accountability, as well as to recognize the key role each academic service plays in the student’s undergraduate learning experience.

Bio: Clare Goulet teaches in the English department/Writing program at MSVU (Halifax, NS), where she directs the university’s small but mighty Writing Centre. A scholarly/literary writer and editor, her essays, poems, interviews, and reviews have been published in books and journals in Canada and abroad, including The Fiddlehead, Grain,  The Dalhousie Review, TAR, Collateral, and others. With Mark Dickinson, she was contributing co-editor for Lyric Ecology on the work of Jan Zwicky (Cormorant). Her most recent book is Graphis scripta / writing lichen (Gaspereau 2024).