Institutional Writing Support in Romania: Setting Up a Writing Center at the West University of Timișoara

Abstract

The chapter examines the current types of writing support provided in Romania and presents an attempt to establish a writing center at the Faculty of Letters, History and Theology, West University of Timișoara, as a result of the SCOPES-funded project entitled LIDHUM (Literacy Development in the Humanities). It addresses some of the challenges encountered in setting up a writing center in the specific context of tertiary education in Romania and outlines some of the ways in which these have been dealt with, arguing that existing writing center models can only be adopted partially and need to be adapted to local conditions.