Vision
The Writing Center at Srishti Manipal aims to encourage and develop the writing skills of the Srishti Manipal Community. Writing is a key element to and of communication. Through the act of writing, the Center looks to foster and promote critical engagement with the relationship between art and design thinking, communication and documentation. The aim is to also emphasize the process of writing - writing, editing, rewriting and proofreading. In a world where good writing has become a premium, the Writing Center at Srishti Manipal actively intends to fill the gap by encouraging and nurturing good writing skills in the students.
History
The Writing Center at Srishti Manipal is one of the most sought after ancillaries of the institution. On an average, it deals with at least ten students a week, providing support to individual concerns of students in the areas of academic or creative writing. Since its conceptualization in 2013, the Center is actively involved in helping students develop proposals, publish their writings and provides guidance in writing for applications for higher studies abroad and in the country. The Center also provides support to the members of the faculty at Srishti Manipal, in teaching writing in their respective disciplines, as well as in developing their own writing skills towards proposals and publications.
What We Do
The Writing Center operates as a democratic space where everyone is welcomed and encouraged to become better writers. Through one-on-one tutoring sessions, you will be guided through the intricate process of writing.
Students and faculty are supported in their writing in the context of teaching and learning, as well as outside of the educational context and that is not be related to coursework.
Emphasis is laid on helping students understand conceptual issues, as well as grammatical problems in their papers. The Writing Center at Srishti Manipal helps students understand assignments, brainstorm, organize, focus, and develop their written works in order to become effective writers. We conduct various workshops to introduce students to the various aspects of writing, and to a range of tools of writing, whether it is flash fiction, technical writing, lyrical verse or report writing. We provide workshops on plagiarism and creative commons as well as Individual tutoring sessions.
The Writing Center develops basic writing competency, interest and beyond.
Areas of writing
Areas of academic and creative writing that we offer assistance with:
- Academic Writing
- Academic Writing in the Humanities
- Art-based Writing
- Creative Writing
- Design Writing
- English as a Second Language
- General Writing
- Multicultural and Multilingual Poetry
- Script Writing
- Technical Writing
- Writing for Business
Forms & Writing Outputs
Forms of writing and writing outputs that we offer assistance with:
- Academic Papers
- Essays
- Project Reports
- Project Documentation
- Abstracts/Briefs
- Poetry
- Presentations
- Reflective Logs
- Reflective Journals
- Bibliographies
- Annotated Bibliographies
- Critical Reviews
- Book Reviews
- Brochures, Annual Reports
- Magazine Articles
- Journal Articles
- Advertising Campaigns
- Manuals (Brand/ Instructional)
- Film Scripts
- Concept Notes
Mentors
Drawing on faculty expertise and mentorship, the Writing Center offers guidance in domain specific areas of writing. An appointment can be made during a mentor’s office hours through contacting them by email.
The mentors at the Writing Center, and their areas of writing support and guidance are as follows:
Academic Writing
Sanjukta Ghosh
Guidance on writing in the following areas: user research, consumer behaviour, triangulation (combination of market research methodologies), startup ecosystem, data science and business analytics, service design, sustainable design, distributed economy, local economic development, supply chain.
Vasanthi Das
Guidance on PhD proposal development
Sonal Godhania
Guidance on the following:
- Writing related to business management, strategic management, and the fashion industry, where there is an emphasis on paper/ documentation, organization and research analysis presentations through pictures, tables and models
- How to narrow down a research area, and do a thorough structured literature review, especially if you are evolving a unique research contribution in a specific research topic
- Managing and planning research projects, timelines and documentations
- Understanding Turnitin software and how to avoid plagiarism in writing
- Writing related to academic papers, project reports, documentation, abstracts/briefs, presentations, bibliographies, annual reports and journal articles
Academic Writing in the Humanities
Anwesha Das
Guidance on writing research papers for courses in Srishti Manipal or for publication, related to her area of expertise in literature and critical theory. Also offers guidance on writing in the genre of creative non-fiction
Art- based Writing
Asmita Sarkar
Guidance on writing that involves how to describe the visual with verbal expressions. Often, art and design writing is different than social science and language and literature writing. This is because art and design describe the processes of making and sensory experience are central and this requires special training such as reading curatorial essays, and art and design books, design culture journals, studies in fashion. Each discipline in art and design has their own vocabularies and methodologies, which are slightly different than social science and culture studies.
Shai Heredia
Guidance on grant writing, review writing for art, writing about your own work and art/film practice, curatorial writing and essays
Creative Writing
Aparna Raman
Guidance on creative writing; guiding faculty towards writing a compelling, accurate and evocative course abstracts to facilitate course selection by students
English as a Second Language
Carl Lindquist
Guidance on English as a second language
General Writing
Manjari Singh
Guidance on concept notes, essays, reflective writing, documentation, writing a bibliography, tools for writing such as using visual maps, developing your own organizer; writing frameworks and visual tools to assist you with writing; reading strategies; tools to help you read in order to write
Multicultural and Multilingual Poetry
Mamta Sagar
Guidance on writing poetry, performance poetry and translation (translation involves not only one language to another but also involves cultural and creative translations, which means responding to a poem or a rendering of a poem); guidance on making poetry films and poetry installations; approaching poems through visual forms
Script Writing
Ahsam K R
Guidance on writing fiction, non-fiction and documentary