Advance your scholarship. Become a voice in your field.

Recommit to your career in higher education with an academic writing consultant or professional manuscript editor.

 
 

Whether you’re an early-career academic transforming your dissertation into a book, or an established academic seeking greater productivity and insight, our online writing specialists are here to help. Our faculty is composed of authors, editors, and publishing insiders who can guide you through the next steps in your project.

 
 

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Our Pillars

Learn what sets the Gilliam Writers Group apart.

A Hands-On Approach

write better, together.

 
The Gilliam Writers Group is committed to providing actionable, practical feedback that helps every client become a better writer, no matter their training or objectives. Learning how to write effectively within academia will allow you to better communicate your scholarship and achieve whatever career goals you have in mind. We believe that an academic writing coach should offer not only technical support, but a collaborative, participatory learning experience, to each graduate student, post-doc, or professor they work with. The interactive, growth-oriented nature of this service is what distinguishes writing coaching from editing; while editing is asynchronous, coaching calls for real-time human connection. While editing is product-focused, coaching attends equally to the writer, their product, and their process of production.

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GWG’s academic writing coaches take a hands-on approach to our clients’ writing. Though this might seem incompatible with the virtual format of our meetings, it isn’t; we’ve found that our online sessions are highly effective for learning—not despite, but because of their digital format. Meeting on Zoom and Google Docs allows the participants to engage with written text in organic, cooperative ways; by collaborating on cloud-based documents, our coaches can shift seamlessly between dialogue and demonstration, idea and experiment, critique and revision. During our lessons, we’ll meet you where you are in your academic career, learning your job-related goals and timelines and developing a plan to achieve them. In this way, you’ll have a partner in writing your book for tenure, drafting articles, planning grant applications, and getting across the finish line in every project you set out to complete. The virtual environment introduces real immediacy into the workshopping process, making it possible for us to intervene in our clients’ output more naturally than we could in a physical setting.
Practically speaking, this means our academic writing coaches can mark up your work with you live on video, demystifying editorial methods. We can observe your writing process unfolding in real time and provide actionable pointers on technique. We can instantly demonstrate the skills you want to learn—all without the awkwardness of peering over each other’s shoulders or passing notebooks back and forth.
If you’re still feeling uncertain (or excited!) about the logistics of one-on-one professional academic writing services with the Gilliam Writers Group, we invite you to schedule a free consultation call. Our Enrollment Managers will be happy to answer your questions and match you with a professional writing coach.

Long-Term Collaboration

coaching changes lives.

 
Whether you are a newly minted PhD looking to take the next steps in your career or a long-term academic hoping to advance your scholarship and your writing skills, we hope you’ll consider online professional academic writing services with a trained GWG faculty member. Why? Because the longer you work with a writing coach, the more impactful their insight becomes. A coach’s most valuable assets—nuanced interpersonal awareness, an intuitive grasp of clients’ evolving skill sets, and deep familiarity with their work—just aren’t available off-the-shelf.

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In our one-on-one academic coaching and writing sessions, you and your coach will unpack your individual goals and work together to meet them. The more thoroughly our instructors get to know you as an individual, the more precisely and impactfully we can apply our expertise to your writing.
Is hiring a professional academic coach worth it? We believe it is, because so much of a long academic career must be managed on your own. Your coach is here to provide community and support, no matter where you find yourself or where you wish to be.

Qualified Faculty

training you can trust.

 
The Gilliam Writers Group faculty is composed of highly trained writers, expert editors, and experienced academic writing consultants. Scroll through our faculty page and you’ll see graduate degrees in writing and literature from the country’s top MFA and PhD programs; years of professional experience in the academic publishing industry, media, business, and education; and strong track records of literary publication.

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Writing by our faculty and emeritus faculty appears in top publications including Slate, The New Yorker, Bookforum, CNN Opinions, Granta, Foreign Policy, JSTOR Daily, Artforum, The Cincinnati Review, Longreads, Al Jazeera, The New York Review of Books, Electric Lit, The New York Times, Lambda Literary, The Rumpus, Catapult, and more.
We have also been published by Simon and Schuster and Penguin Random House, among other presses large and small, and have earned multiple awards and prizes for not only our scholarship, but also our fiction, poetry, and criticism.
Before hiring an online academic writing coach through the Gilliam Writers Group, we invite you to request a writing sample from their portfolio. That way, you can experience for yourself the exceptional combination of talent and training our team has to offer.

professional academic writing faculty

 
 

Erin Mackie

richmond, va. + online

In May 2024, Erin left her position as Professor of English Literature at Syracuse University and moved to Richmond, Virginia. A practiced teacher and mentor, she has decades of experience working with writers at every level, from first-year students mastering the elements of fiction and the rigors of the critical essay, to Ph.D. candidates engaged in the sustained elaboration of a dissertation thesis. Recently, she has been working as a writing coach and editor for academics in the Humanities and Social Sciences. She collaborates with these professors and researchers on books, articles, presentations, reports, applications, and proposals.

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With students, Erin focuses on advancement through the foundational skills of reading, writing, and textual analysis. Accompanying them every step of the way, Erin serves as a guide as students generate ideas, draft outlines, and revise and refine their writing. With all her clients, Erin identifies practices that help transform their experiences, ideas, achievements, and aspirations into compelling texts resonant with the originating voice of their author.
In Richmond, Erin tutors at the READ Adult Literacy Center and is a docent at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture. From her undergraduate studies in Classics at The Johns Hopkins University, her Ph.D. in English Literature from Princeton University, and on through her lengthy academic career, Erin’s professional, volunteer, and leisure activities have centered on language, literature, culture, and history. A long-time student of Spanish, Erin has traveled extensively in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Spain. She brings to all her coaching and editing work an active awareness of cultures and histories as well as a dedicated engagement with language and literature.
Erin has published books and essays on English and Latin American literature and served as an editor and referee for academic presses and journals. Her academic writing focuses on fashion and gender, the popular periodical and the public sphere, the West Indies, masculinity and criminality, satire, and the novel.
 

Jill Spivey Caddell

crozet, va. + online

Jill Spivey Caddell is an experienced researcher, teacher, and writer. Currently based in the Crozet/Charlottesville area of Virginia, she has held faculty positions at the University of Kent, American University, George Mason University, and Glenelg Country School and was a tutor at the University of Cambridge’s Institute for Continuing Education. She is also a co-project director of Commemorative Cultures: The American Civil War Monuments Database, based at St. Andrews University.

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In 2015, Jill received her Ph.D. in English at Cornell University, where her dissertation received the Guilford Prize for Highest Achievement in English Prose. Her scholarly work has appeared in New England Quarterly; the collection Literary Cultures of the American Civil War (University of Georgia Press, August 2016); J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists; and Visions of Glory: The Civil War in Word and Image (University of Georgia Press, November 2019). Jill is also is a regular contributor of essays, interviews, and reviews to Apollo: The International Art Magazine and has written reviews and criticism for JSTOR Daily, Longreads, CNN Opinion, The Conversation, and The Rambling.
 

Seth Strickland

ithaca, n.y. + online

Seth Strickland is a photographer and writer living in Ithaca, NY where he also serves as the Joseph F. Martino '53 Lecturer in Undergraduate Teaching at Cornell University. He completed a PhD on book construction, medieval allegory, and questions of source integration in poetic compositions. He enjoys thinking about the relationship of writing to its material — how writing by hand, typewriting, or digital word processing and the writing environment changes the way we create.

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Seth returns often to the philosophy of connection and association - how when two works of literature are found in the same place, two objects, or two people, those things begin an intertwined life. Seth last published "A Certain Lie About the Phoenix" in Goodbye, Mexico, “Anchored in Malvern: Eremitic and Anchoritic Practice in Malvern Hills and Piers Plowman” is forthcoming in Philological Quarterly, and his other poetry and photography live in many places.
 

Ryan Lawrence

pennsylvania furnace, p.a. + online

Ryan is a writer, teacher, and editor based in Pennsylvania. He earned his PhD at Cornell University, where he studied medieval literature and environmental history. Ryan is currently an Assistant Teaching Professor in English at Penn State University, where he primarily teaches courses in rhetoric and composition. He has served as an editor for multiple academic journals, and his work has been published in Philological Quarterly and The Literary Encyclopedia. In addition to academic writing, Ryan has written plays, translations, musical compositions, and poetry.
 

Donna Vatnick

providence, r.i. + online

Donna Vatnick is a researcher, writer, and educator based in Providence, Rhode Island. She was the selected teaching fellow at Washington University in St. Louis after graduating with her MFA in nonfiction. Before calling herself a creative writer, Donna worked in molecular biology labs and coordinated clinical trials in Boston. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review, The Millions, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute’s Insight, and more.

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Donna has years of experience editing dissertations, theses, and academic papers in the social and medical sciences. She has taught creative writing at the university level, designed curriculums and led workshops. Recently, she won the Newman Exploration Travel Grant to research her upcoming book about the human liver.
 

Nathan McBurnett

west lafayette, in. + online

Nathan is an interdisciplinary writer and educator with over six years of experience as a writing coach, editor, author and college-level instructor. He began his training as a consultant at the Purdue Writing Lab while pursuing a dual degree in philosophy and anthropology. He later received graduate training as a writing instructor at the University of Michigan’s Sweetland Center while completing his Master’s in Urban and Regional Planning. Nathan’s editorial experience includes serving on the board of Agora Journal of Urban Planning & Design, a venue in which he has also published.

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At the Purdue OWL, he served as a copy editor and content creator, helping prep the website for its 2018 overhaul and relaunch.
With a background in both the humanities and social sciences, Nathan takes an interdisciplinary approach to writing and coaching. He emphasizes the importance of pragmatics, and admires writing styles that cross genres and prioritize semantic clarity. He enjoys working with writers of all ages, trades, and educational backgrounds, and has extensive experience consulting clients on both long-form and short-form nonfiction products including books, dissertations, theses, manuscripts, and mixed media. Outside of Gilliam, Nathan is a full-time urban planner who writes public policy and regulatory language that communities use to govern themselves. He enjoys baking, weightlifting, mixology, and science fiction.

Our Solutions

Private, real-time coaching sessions led by online writing consultants who are familiar with the process of academic research and publication.

Invest in your writing; invest in success.

Show “Reviewer 2” what you’re made of.

 
At the Gilliam Writers Group, we understand just how connected your writing is with your success—how every article counts toward your tenure packet, for example, or how the publication of a book can make the difference between tenure and precarity. Thankfully, our coaches are well-qualified to accompany career academics through any and all stages of their professional development. “Publish or perish” is an academic ethos that, despite increasing pressures on faculty to do more with less, remains an expectation for promotion. But the dictate to publish in academia doesn’t have to feel like an albatross. We can help you rediscover (or find for the first time!) the pleasures of writing in your field, whatever your intended audience.

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At the heart of strong academic writing are the same qualities that distinguish good writing in any genre: clarity, awareness of audience, word choice, and the transmission of knowledge. At the same time, academic writing has very specific expectations for tone, complexity, engagement with sources or data, and more. Whatever the breadth or scope of the academic writing you’re seeking to perfect, we’re here to help you turn your individual research and scholarship into writing that moves conversations forward in the academy and beyond.
We recognize that different disciplines have different expectations and requirements, and our academic writing consultants are prepared to help, whether you’re in the humanities, the social sciences, natural sciences, or formal and life sciences. Our own faculty have a variety of backgrounds and areas of expertise, and we will match you with the one whose academic training best matches your own. Wherever you are in your academic journey, GWG's coaches have the experience to help you improve your writing for both academic and non-academic audiences. There are no grumpy, mean-spirited "Reviewer 2's" among our experienced faculty—only committed and kind coaches who can help you create the work you’ve always wanted to.

Services for Newly Minted Doctorates

Transform your dissertation into a readable book.

 
The journey from graduate student to full-time academic is challenging on many levels, but in particular, many newly minted doctorates struggle to transform their dissertation into their first book. One difficulty is simply carving out time for the work that goes into a book amidst an array of new expectations for your time, including teaching and service. Another difficulty is the expectation that your work must drastically change scope. Instead of demonstrating your knowledge of a field, you must now make a novel intervention or a unique contribution through your scholarship.

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Making this leap is difficult but exciting. Our coaches can both help you structure your time to get the book written and guide you through the process of deepening your scholarship in transformative ways. In writing their first books, some faculty are able to keep the interlocutors—their dissertation advisor, graduate school colleagues—they worked with in graduate schools. Some join writing groups at their new institutions or are provided with course releases and research funds to support their work. Other faculty are left on their own and without external or internal support. An academic writing coach will step into the breach when institutions or individuals let you down, getting to know your processes and your work deeply and helping you stay motivated throughout the long journey to getting the book finished.
As you complete your first book, you must also contemplate presses for publication and write a book proposal that will effectively pitch your work to editors. The academic book proposal is a genre unto itself, requiring a detailed knowledge of your book’s argument, chapter breakdowns, comparable titles, its potential audience, possible reviewers, and more. Our coaches will demystify the process of writing an academic book proposal, working with you to hone its clarity while not diluting the sophistication of your research.
As your faculty career progresses, the “publish or perish” ethos does not lessen; you will still be expected to produce articles and chapters in edited collections, among other scholarly products like book reviews, tenure materials, and more. An effective article is a far different beast than a monograph: it necessitates concision as well as a thorough argument. We can help you develop your ideas, communicate your research, and perfect your work for submission; we can also work with you to respond to the comments of editors and reviewers after a ‘revise and resubmit,’ increasing the odds of your article being accepted. As in academic writing groups online or other types of accountability clubs, you will agree on deadlines to meet, and your drafts will be carefully read and considered. But unlike in writing groups, your work is the sole focus of your private coach. You can be more productive and establish better habits more quickly with the individualized help of a writing coach.

Services for Experienced Faculty 

“Publish or perish” (minus the doom and gloom).

 
Once you’ve achieved tenure or gained clout in your field, you may think writing gets easier; in reality, academics often take on increased leadership roles and therefore possess even less time to devote to their scholarship. This can make second or even third books all the more challenging to complete. While sabbaticals and course releases are intended to give faculty the time and space they need to write, this unstructured time can feel overwhelming. Our academic writing coaches have worked with faculty at every stage of their careers, responding to each client’s particular needs.

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If you’re looking for accountability in your writing practice, a second pair of eyes on your work, a partner to discuss your ideas with, or a reader who will help you refine your scholarly writing, our coaches are poised to help. Many seasoned faculty may struggle with not only finding the time for new research, but also feeling invigorated by new work. A writing coach is your ally as you embark on fresh projects or seek innovative ways of engaging with your discipline. Some universities allow faculty to use their research funds to hire coaches, ensuring that faculty are as supported and productive as possible.
As an experienced faculty member, you know your field better than anyone, and this may lead you to want to write more for the public. Communicating your field’s import to the general public is an entirely different skillset than producing scholarship for experts in your discipline. Our writing coaches will work with you to distill your research into words that are consumable for the public, helping you to connect with audiences far beyond your colleagues. Your years of experience make you an authority in your field and a potential thought leader; work with us to write your way into the next phase of your career.

Developmental & Academic Book Editing

Experience the support that publishers used to offer.

 
Wherever you are in your career, an academic book editor can help you develop and perfect your words for publication. Our faculty can provide developmental editing for any genre of academic writing, through all stages of drafting and submission. Perhaps you’re still generating ideas for the next book or article and want guidance in developing your ideas into words. Perhaps you’re deep in drafting a book and require a thoughtful, incisive reader to help you refine your argumentation. No matter the current status of your project, our academic book editors will make your work more elegant and insightful.

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As you get further along in your writing process, you may require manuscript services including copy editing and indexing. As university presses have cut staff, it has fallen increasingly on academic authors to provide their own proofreading and editing. Hiring a professional academic book editor will allow you to feel confident that your book is completed to the highest standard. Our editors can also be hired for indexing services. A complete index will allow your readers to gain the fullest experience from your book, but presses rarely provide index services to authors. With our academic manuscript editing services, a GWG coach/editor can help you create a thorough index that showcases the many levels of scholarship contained within your monograph.

Grant Writing Consulting Services

Let’s attract the funding you need.

 
Increasingly, academics in both the sciences and the humanities are being asked to apply for grants to support their work. Grant writing is seldom taught in graduate school, but it is now an essential skill in creating a long and satisfying faculty career. Our experienced academic grant writing consultants can guide you through the process of composing a successful grant application. And if public outreach is one of your goals for your scholarship, a coach can help you shape your message, search for publication outlets, and effectively convey your scholarly insights to the masses.

Disciplines

While the principles of great writing transcend subjects, disciplinary conventions still matter—especially within the academy. That’s why GWG retains faculty with experience in every main form of professional academic writing.

Humanities

Make your meaning sing on the page.

 
Academics who work in humanities fields—including history, languages, literature, philosophy, religion, the visual and performing arts, etc.—may have received little or no explicit writing instruction while earning their graduate degrees. The assumption seems to be that if you choose to study the humanities, then of course you can already write! But academic writing in humanities disciplines has its own particularities, nuances, and structures of argumentation, and it’s possible that humanities doctorates can earn Ph.D.s while still feeling at sea or unhappy with their writing skills and habits. Our writing coaches can help humanities scholars feel joy in their writing again while still meeting the standards of their discipline. We know that rigorous writing and elegant writing can be one and the same thing. Work with an academic writing coach to strengthen every element of your writing, from individual sentences to the overall structure of your monograph or article. When you teach students to write in the humanities, you give their words care and attention to help them develop the skill they will need as scholars. An academic writing coach allows your own work to be the focus of such careful attention.

Social Sciences

Find the right voice for your analysis.

 
Your research is at the center of your scholarly identity. If your writing is not communicating your research effectively—perhaps your word choice is too technical or not technical enough; perhaps you overuse jargon; perhaps your greater argument gets lost in smaller points—you may struggle to move ahead within your institution or your discipline. In social science fields such as sociology, economics, psychology, anthropology, archeology, communications, political science, linguistics, and law, scholars must organize and explain their evidence through concise language in order to communicate the validity of their conclusions. Through coaching, you can perfect the clear and elegant communication skills that will garner respect for your research within your field.

Formal & Life Sciences

Let nothing be lost in translation.

 
Scholars who work in the formal sciences—including fields such as mathematics and computer science—and the life sciences—chemistry, physics, earth science, environmental science, biology, and more—may have received even less writing education than their colleagues in the humanities or social sciences. Because academic writing in these fields often follows a rigorous IMRaD format, scholars may feel there is no room for finesse or artistry in their writing. Yet writing in any format or genre benefits from practice to acquire proficiency in skills ranging from clarity to organization to tone, and partnering with a scientific writing consultant can help you reach your writing goals. The scholar Kathleen E. Grogan suggests that scientists “should apply the scientific method to improving our writing practices. Collect advice from many sources, try different tactics, retain what works, and discard what doesn't to ultimately settle on the strategies that can best help you write.” A GWG scientific writing coach will partner with you to embark on this process of applying the scientific method to your own writing. In customized, one-on-one scientific writing classes, you’ll experiment with style, test methods of communicating your research clearly, and venture toward work that will advance scientific knowledge.

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Then, once your paper or manuscript is written, our scientific manuscript editors can provide a second pair of eyes on your work, ensuring that your work is edited to the highest quality. Our science manuscript editing services are designed to establish consistency and clarity throughout your publications. We know how much your reputation in the field is founded in your research; work with us to translate that research into sophisticated, rigorous publications that help your insights reach the world.

 Determining Fit

Is Gilliam right for you? Learn more about how—and whom—an academic writing consultant can help.

  • Individuals looking to improve their academic writing skills, regardless of where they are in their academic careers

    Universities who wish to hire professional academic coaches and editors to work with faculty 

    Faculty who want to position themselves as thought leaders in their fields 

    Any professional academic who needs a jump-start in their writing skills during a sabbatical or as they embark on a new project

    Individuals who are in the process of transforming their Ph.D. dissertations into their first scholarly books

    Scholars seeking professional coaching to ensure that they meet deadlines and stay productive despite the demands of teaching and service

    Academic presses who seek professional editors and coaches for their writers

    Professors at all levels who require developmental editing or copyediting for their manuscripts

    Junior faculty who are seeking to increase their writing production and learn skills in time management they can carry throughout their academic careers

  • Work with you on academic projects, from conference papers and book reviews to peer-reviewed essays and monographs

    Give you the skills you need to revise your own work independently, whether you’re writing at a beginner, intermediate, or advanced level

    Work collaboratively with you on any short-term or long-term essays, articles, chapters, or manuscripts

    Support you in finding your confidence as an academic writer

    Teach you to communicate more clearly and effectively

    Reinforce your mastery of grammar and punctuation, even by providing formal grammar lessons if desired

    Strengthen your overall writing practice by advising you on time management, planning, and writing strategy 

    Meet with you regularly on a weekly or biweekly basis (online via video chat and a shared digital document) for writing coaching or professional academic services

    Offer encouragement and motivation beyond technical feedback

    Facilitate engaging and productive sessions on academic writing, even when you don’t show up with any written work

    Match you with a well-qualified and unobjectionable academic writing coach online

    Provide and co-sign a thorough NDA to protect your privacy as a client of the Gilliam Writers Group

    Plan an academic writing workshop for your university faculty needs

  • Support plagiarism of any kind, particularly as it relates to AI chatbot-generated work — our faculty are serious about educational, creative, and professional ethics! 

    Write documents of any kind on your behalf or produce written work for you outside of meetings 

    Read or edit your writing without payment, on our own time 

    Take responsibility for your attendance at class sessions (though we will absolutely remind and encourage you to attend) 

    Force you to maintain a certain writing schedule (we can help you create a schedule, but we cannot ensure that you stick to it) 

    Guarantee your writing will result in a promotion or monetary gain 

    Take the place of a therapist – we are coaches, tutors, and editors, not counselors 

    Guarantee that one of our faculty members will be available to provide professional academic services near you (we do, however, guarantee that we can provide online professional academic services of the very highest quality)

    Act as your representative or personal correspondent to employees, colleagues, or any other person or entity 

Pricing

Our academic writing coach rates range from $85 to $200 per hour.  To learn more about our rate structure, use the drop-down menu below or visit our pricing page for authors, creatives, and professionals.

  • The Gilliam Writers Group bills hourly for online writing coaching and consulting sessions, following our standard rate model for time-based services.

Getting Started

Connect with an academic writing consultant in 3 simple steps. Our onboarding process is thorough and convenient, resulting in successful client-coach matches.

Step 1

Schedule your consultation.

 
To hire the Gilliam Writers Group faculty for professional academic services, we invite you to first schedule a free, 15-minute consultation call with a representative from our company’s leadership team.

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During this intake call, we’ll guide you through a series of standardized questions about your background, experience, and goals, taking detailed notes on your responses. These notes will form the basis of your client brief – an internal document central to GWG’s client-instructor matching process. The client brief ensures that we can help you find an academic writing consultant to suit your particular needs and preferences. After answering any lingering questions, your representative will conclude the call and email you two important documents.
First, you’ll receive our new client onboarding brochure, a PDF containing useful resources including a list of best practices, contact information for everyone on our leadership team, and the link to a feedback form you can submit at any point during your work with the Gilliam Writers Group. Second, you will receive a link to our service agreement (fillable online). We co-sign this form with all new clients to establish clear terms of engagement and, above all, to protect your interests – for example, to legally bind ourselves to nondisclosure. You can later dissolve this agreement at any time, for any reason, with just 24 hours’ notice.

Step 2

Connect with your coach.

 
Within 24 hours of your consultation call, your newly assigned writing consultant or editor will reach out via email and text to schedule the first session of your package.

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At this point, they’ll already have a clear sense of your background, needs, and preferred meeting schedule; it is our policy to always read a new client’s brief before making contact. This mitigates redundancy in GWG’s onboarding process; as you establish communication with your academic writing coach, you won’t need to rehash the basics of your interest in online academic writing classes, for example, or the personality profile of your ideal writing helper. Your coach will already be in the loop.

Step 3

Enjoy your first session.

 
Our online academic coaching sessions take place on Zoom and Google Docs, and emphasize guided, real-time practice combined with immediate feedback. The structure of your first session will depend largely on your particular needs and the discernment of your instructor; there is no standard formula, though most such meetings are necessarily focused on gathering information, assessing the client’s writing and goals, and developing a plan of action.

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After your first session, we suggest that you and your coach agree on a regular weekly or biweekly (once every two weeks) meeting time and stick to it. Over the years, we have found that consistent weekly or biweekly sessions generate the clearest improvements in our clients’ writing and writing processes.
The Gilliam Writers Group is primarily an online company; however, if you’re interested in setting up an in-person academic services class near you, please contact us. In certain cases, we may be able to offer a professional academic writing class in NYC, which is home to a large part of our community.

Swapping Coaches

Just in case.

 
If you find that you and your instructor or editor aren’t a match, or you decide to work with other GWG faculty in the future, our leadership team can support you in choosing a different online writing consultant.

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Before matching you with another faculty member, we will usually suggest that you first tell your coach as clearly as possible what you believe is missing in your work together. Open, honest dialogue is essential to the service we offer; all GWG coaches possess strong interpersonal skills, but none of us can read minds.
If clear communication does not yield the hoped-for results, or you no longer want to work with your coach for any reason, just let our leadership team know. We’ll initiate a new, more streamlined client-instructor matching process, supplementing your original client brief (the one created during your initial consultation call) with updated information to reflect both your progress and the reasons you are pausing work with your previous coach.

Ready to work with an academic writing coach or book editor?

Schedule a free consultation call with a Gilliam Writers Group Enrollment Manager. We’ll help you find a writing consultant online in 24 hours or less.

You can book your call directly on our scheduling page by clicking the button below:

 

  • Brady Gilliam, Founder

  • Tadeh Kennedy, Enrollment Manager

  • Misha McDaniel, Enrollment Manager

 

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