Academic Writing ProgramWaseda University

About the Writing Center

FAQ

Please check the “Using the Writing Center” page for detailed instructions on how to cancel a session. You can cancel online up until the session’s starting time.
If you need to cancel after the session starts, please e-mail our receptionists at [email protected] as soon as possible. Include your name and student/faculty number in the e-mail.
The sooner you cancel, the sooner we can make that session available for another student.

Each student can only reserve one session at a time on MyWaseda. After that session has finished, you can reserve your next session. There is no limit on how many times you can use the Center in a semester.

For online sessions: at the moment, we cannot accept walk-in sessions.

For face-to-face sessions: as long as there are vacancies, it might be possible to have a session immediately, or else reserve a session for later in that day. Please enquire at the reception. However, at busy periods, such as the end of term, we recommend that you reserve a session online beforehand. You can find out about walk-in sessions here, and about making an online reservation here.

 

In both cases, the tutor will help revise a paper written in Japanese while discussing in Japanese. However, JJ sessions are principally for native speakers of Japanese, whereas JS sessions are intended for students for whom Japanese is a second language. In the latter case, the tutor will have training in teaching Japanese as a foreign language.

In principle, it is not possible to choose a tutor by name when you reserve a session. However, if you wish to see the same tutor again, you can ask the tutor when they are scheduled to work and book a session  during those times.

Each session lasts 45 minutes. We cannot extend sessions.

For sessions on the main campus (Building 3), you can make reservations online via MyWaseda until the start of the session.
For online sessions and sessions at our branches (Nishi Waseda and Tokorozawa) you can make reservations online until 9 AM of the day of the session  (more details here).
We do not accept reservations by telephone. For face-to-face sessions only, in the event that there is a session vacant, it is also possible to reserve on the day by visiting our reception (check here for details).

 

The Writing Center deals exclusively with academic writing. For more details, please click here.

The Writing Center is open during lecture times from Monday to Friday. Please click here for more detailed information on our opening hours.

In general, currently enrolled students and faculty of the Writing Center can use the Waseda Writing Center.
An easy way to check if you can use the Writing Center is to try and book a session through our system (you can find instructions here).

If you are a Research Fellow and would like to use our services but cannot access our reservation system, please contact us.  

Please check our guide on the “Using the Writing Center” page and the FAQ included in the reservation system (in the reservation system, click “Menu” on the top right corner of the page, then “FAQ”).  

If you still have questions after checking the pages above, please contact us. 

Yes, our tutors can help you with your report or citations. Please book a session and consult with the tutor.

The Writing Center also has books on academic writing that you can check without a session reservation. We recommend the following series:

Chin, Peter, Samuel Reid, Sean Wray, Yoko Yamazaki. Academic Writing Skills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
(there are three volumes in this series)

For thesis writers, we also recommend the following book that can be checked out through Waseda Library:

Evans, David,  Paul Gruba and Justin Zobel. How to Write a Better Thesis. 3rd Edition. Cham: Springer, 2014.

If you can read Japanese, you can also check the following books:

佐渡島紗織・坂本麻裕子・中島宏治・太田裕子(2022)『課題に応える 卒論に活かせる 大学生のためのレポートの書き方』ナツメ社

佐渡島紗織・吉野亜矢子(2021)『これから研究を書くひとのためのガイドブック 第2版』ひつじ書房

佐渡島紗織・ディエゴ, オリベイラ・嶼田大海・ニコラス, デルグレゴ編著(2020)『レポート・論文をさらによくする「引用」ガイド』大修館書店

佐渡島紗織・坂本麻裕子・大野真澄編著(2015)『レポート・論文をさらによくする「書き直し」ガイド―大学生・大学院生のための自己点検法29―』大修館書店

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