Howe Center for Writing Excellence
The Howe Center for Writing Excellence is a team of faculty, staff, graduate students, and undergraduate students from a variety of disciplines who are committed to supporting the learning and teaching of writing at Miami University, and nationwide. We rely on research- and evidence-based principles to support writing, and we recognize that collaborating and innovating with interdisciplinary stakeholders across the university is essential to helping Miami students learn to write.
Two Programs
WRITING-FOCUSED
The Howe Writing Center supports all Miami writers—students and faculty—with any writing they are doing and at any point in their process. Programming is run by HWC director, staff, Graduate Assistant Directors, and expertly trained undergraduate and graduate student writing consultants.
TEACHING-FOCUSED
The Howe Writing Across the Curriculum Program provides innovative support for teaching so that faculty and graduate teaching assistants can effectively include writing in their courses and programs.
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This is Howe We Do It
This is Howe We Do It is a podcast from the Howe Center for Writing Excellence at Miami University of Ohio where teachers and students talk about writing and teaching writing. The podcast is hosted by Rena Perez, and produced by Will Chesher and Rena Perez.
Our podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or use our RSS Feed to subscribe using your platform of choice. Or listen below!
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Miami Writing Institute
Rethink what it means to be a good writer with this thought-provoking course created by Miami's nationally known Howe Center for Writing Excellence (HCWE) and offered through Miami Professional Education.
One look through this window, and you'll see writing in a whole new light.
Miami Writing Spotlight
The Miami Writing Spotlight series profiles people, programs, and practices that embody the research-based principles of writing and learning emphasized at the Howe Center for Writing Excellence and in the field of Writing Studies.
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Teaching Writing as a Developmental Process in Psychology
Guiding Effective Student Writing and Research
Teachers as Intellectuals
Threshold Concepts as Guideposts for Change in Teacher Education
Philosophy Fellows on Teaching Writing
Something Invisible Has Been Made Visible For Me
Written Communication is Essential
A Howe Award Winner Commits to Improving Writing Instruction in Engineering
Think Like an Economist
How Economics Faculty Developed a New Plan for Teaching Writing
All writers are learning, and with every word put to page we understand our writing process a little better. Witnessing other people’s writing processes through the Howe Center – as both a consultant and a consulted writer – helped me challenge my own way of doing things and adopt new writing practices.
Mick Reising '23
Don't be afraid to make yourself uncomfortable, whether that be by trying a new writing process, writing in a new style or voice, exploring an unfamiliar idea, or letting other people read your work. The more you try, the more you'll learn about yourself as a writer. Everybody is a writer with different skill sets and levels of experience.
Julia Moore '26
Howe Center for Writing Excellence
The mission of the HCWE is to ensure that Miami supports its students in developing as effective writers in college, and fully prepares all of its graduates to excel as clear, concise, and persuasive writers in their careers, communities, and personal lives.
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151 S. Campus Ave
King Library
Oxford, OH 45056
hcwe@MiamiOH.edu
513-529-6100
2022 Writing Program Certificate of Excellence
2022 Exemplary Enduring WAC Program
