CEPT Writing Center

The CEPT Writing Center (CWC) is uniquely situated on a campus that enables interaction with practitioners of disciplines which have a tangible physical imprint in the world – design, architecture, urban design and planning, technology. As professionals, learners, scholars, academics, and educationists, the CEPT community encounters reading and writing in varied forms. Reading and writing lend themselves to being learning tools within domains which are otherwise oriented towards the visual and tactile. They empower professionals with ways to contribute to their practice, and open it up to a larger world. And they open up possibilities to enter into academic dialogue within the discourse of each discipline and among them. 
 
The CEPT Writing Center, then, is a horizontal that cuts across the verticals of the disciplines at the University, drawing on the rich body of existing knowledge around rhetoric and composition,  writing across the curriculum, writing center practices and pedagogy in higher education.  We bring these into conversation with the body of practice and expertise developed by the CEPT community, to nuance them in ways that respond to specific disciplinary needs, and make them more widely available within our institution and beyond. Through this we aim to build a repository around textual practice and spatial thinking.
  
The CEPT Writing Center works with students and faculty members to identify and support their trajectories as readers and writers within their specific fields. We acknowledge that the needs and aspirations of a product designer in their interaction with the written or the spoken word need not align with those of an urban planner.  Through short-term workshops and input sessions provided within the ambit of courses and studios, we aim to build together a repertoire of knowledge and abilities that caters to diverse disciplinary and learners’ needs.

For one-on-one consultations in person or online for coursework, extra-curricular writing or anything communication related, we are available on appointment on Thursdays post lunch 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm. You shall receive an email to confirm your appointment. Write to writing.center@cept.ac.in

“…writing is like architecture. In buildings, there are design motifs that occur again and again, that repeat -- patterns, curves. These motifs help us feel comfortable in a physical space. And the same works in writing, I've found. For me, the way words, punctuation and paragraphs fall on the page is important as well -- the graphic design of the language.”
--Arundhati Roy, School of Planning and Architecture, B.Arch