Part-Time Faculty: Open Writing Consultant Sections (Fall 2025)

About the role

The department of Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition at Syracuse University is seeking individuals to fill available Writing Consulting assignments for the fall 2025 semester. These offerings are either 5 (1.5 credit) or 10 (3 credit) hours per week, dependent on availability and need.

Responsibilities

Consultants will help students one-to-one in the WC and online, visit classrooms, and develop workshops; some afternoon/evening/weekend hours required. Consultants assist students to:

• Interpret an assignment sheet
• Talk through ideas for a project
• Discuss course readings
• Plan for a paper.
• (Re)consider choices with regard to audience, focus, reasoning, or organization.
• Develop ideas with greater specificity
• Acquire research strategies
• Integrate scholarly sources, and apply proper documentation.
• Improve edit and proofreading skills, expand vocabulary, and better understand technical conventions of academic writing.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Build a positive rapport with students and other faculty.
• Keep current with developments and trends in the Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition curriculum and in the field of rhetoric and composition.

Qualifications

• Prior experience as a Writing Consultant required;
• Experience in the Writing Center at Syracuse University is strongly preferred.