ASC Writing Lab

If you ever find yourself in need of extra help with your written assignments join our online ASC Writing Lab!

To schedule a one-on-one tutoring session, please contact: ascwritinglab@uw.edu.pl. In the Fall 2024/25, the Lab is operating from October 22 through February 5 on Tuesdays (09.00-13.00) and Wednesdays (14.00-16.00).

Writing Lab Appointments

How can we help?

As we strive to create opportunities for growth in writing skills, we can provide individual support in various aspects of writing, such as organization, clarity, grammar and style. Our goal is to provide constructive feedback on how to strengthen arguments, refine writing style, enhance research techniques, implement academic conventions and citation styles, and generally improve writing practices.

Mindful of your individual needs, we will provide feedback on your written work and guide you through the revision process before you turn in your paper to be graded. We can point out some grammar mistakes, but we cannot edit or proofread students’ assignments.

How should you prepare for the Writing Lab online appointment?

1. Don’t wait until the last minute to schedule it.
2. Bring any assignment guidelines or worksheets with you.
3. Come with a set of specific questions. For the research paper proposal, these could be questions about thesis, research questions, etc.
4. In the case of long assignments such as the essay draft, focus on a specific section.
5. Be active during your consultations: engage in a conversation with the tutor, ask questions, take notes.

Coordinator

Joanna Mąkowska holds a PhD in American Literature and is an Assistant Professor at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. Her research interests include twentieth and twenty-first century literature in the United States and Canada, poetry and poetics, documentary and protest writing, American ecocriticism, posthumanist and feminist theories. She has published in Arizona Quarterly, Modernism/modernity, Women’s Studies, and James Baldwin Review, among other venues. Her work also appeared in many edited collections, most recently in The Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the State University of New York at Buffalo (2017-2018) and Kosciuszko Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Duquesne University (2021-2022). She is also a literary critic and translator, publishing in Literatura na Świecie and Dwutygodnik.

Tutors

Julia Płaczkiewicz is a PhD candidate at the American Studies Center, University of Warsaw. Her research project focuses on the influence of the #MeToo movement on the depiction of female rage in contemporary audiovisual culture. She is the author of a chapter contribution to the volume Grief, Identity, and the Arts: A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Expressions of Grief. Her thesis “The (Im)Perfect Girlfriend: Origins, Politics, and Limitations of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl Trope in American Cinema” received second prize from the Polish Association for American Studies for the “Best Polish Master’s Thesis in the Field of American Studies.” She is also a member of the Gender/Sexuality Research Group at the ASC.

Jagoda Tyczyńska holds an MA degree from the University of Warsaw’s American Studies Center. Her thesis “Liberal Representations of the Working-Class in Post-2010 American Cinema” was awarded the First Prize for the “Best American Studies Master’s Thesis Written at a Polish University” in a contest organized by the Polish Association for American Studies. Her article “Silent Narratives and Post-Recession Anxieties in Debra Granik’s Winter’s Bone (2010)” will feature in the 2023 issue of the Polish Journal for American Studies. Her research focuses on the depictions and political readings of interracial body swapping in science fiction.