Philosophy Essay Clinic

The Philosophy Essay Clinic is available to any undergraduate student enrolled in a philosophy course at UBC who needs help with their philosophical writing.

Services

Tutors will provide:

  • general advice on structuring an argument; and
  • critical commentary on draft papers.

Tutors will not provide:

  • text or specific ideas for student papers;
  • tutorials or help with course content for individual philosophy courses; or
  • more than occasional assistance with basic writing skills (please use the UBC Writing Centre for this purpose).

With this in mind, please come to the clinic with a draft paper to review and a clear sense of the support you need from our tutors.

Essay Clinic Tutors and Hours (2023W term 1)

The Philosophy Essay Clinic will be open for eight weeks during peak writing months. This term’s clinic runs from October 9 Monday to December 7 Thursday and will take place on Zoom. (Please note that there will be no sessions during the midterm break, November 13-15 inclusive.)

Each student will be given 20 minutes on a first-come, first-served basis. Waiting rooms (on Zoom) will be enabled until the session is fully booked.

If you cannot make either of our drop-in days, please email one of our tutors to schedule an appointment. Please note that each appointment runs for no more than 20 minutes, so please bring the prompt you are working on and a draft of your essay.

Our two drop-in blocks for the duration of the clinic:

Wednesdays, 12:00pm – 1:30pm

Thursdays, 9:00am – 10:30am

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