Join our Weekly Writing Accountability Group (WAG)!

Join our Weekly Writing Accountability Group (WAG)! Every TUESDAY - 5:00-6:30PM 🕔☕️🧁

Struggling to find time to write? You are not alone.

To help our graduate community build stronger, more consistent writing habits, GEARS has partnered with the Women's, Gender and Equity Center to bring you weekly Writing Accountability Groups (WAG)! Join us tomorrow to see what it's all about!

🗓️ Every Tuesday
🕔 5:00 - 6:30 PM
📍 Commons 004

Bonus: ☕️🧁 Free Starbucks coffee, muffins, and cakes!

How Group Writing Helps You Progress:

Built-in Accountability: Committing to a specific time and place makes you far more likely to actually sit down and write.
Shared Focus: Working quietly alongside your peers creates a highly focused environment that minimizes procrastination.
Sustainable Habits: Writing for just 90 minutes every week helps you chip away at those daunting research papers or funding applications without burning out.

Whether you need to write 500 words or just outline your next chapter, come grab a coffee, pull up a chair, and let's get some writing done together.

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Calling All Graduate Students!

Join the writing accountability group to commit to your writing goals. The kickoff meeting is on 10/03/2025 from 11am - 12pm at ILSB 201 (virtual option also available). Light refreshments will be provided!

Click here to join this meeting virtually.

What are Writing Accountability Group, or WAGs at UMBC?

What: Writing Accountability Groups (WAGs) are voluntary and facilitated by fellow UMBC graduate students
Who: WAGs are comprised of a group of graduate students (usually 4-8 participants per group) interested in developing writing habits and accountability
Why: Develop habits of writing every day for a short, manageable period of time by setting goals and being accountable to WAG peers
When: WAG groups meet once a week for 60-90 minutes for 10-12 weeks. The group finds a weekly time mutually convenient to all group members.
Where: The group decides on a mutually convenient location to meet, whether in person or online via WebEx or other video conferencing platform

Register with this link. Hope to see you there!

Want to Learn More?

AOK Library’s Faculty has created a guide for facilitating Writing Accountability Groups. Visit here for more: https://lib.guides.umbc.edu/wags
WAGs were developed by Dr. Kimberly A. Skarupski, Ph.D., MPH. Visit here for more: https://www.wagyourwork.com/

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