A Case for a Writting Center at Unipampa

Abstract

Writing centers are a resource to fulfill the increased demands on international academic writing at the universities around the world. Although the studies and researches about writing centers are consolidated in the literature, in Brazil these spaces are still a brand new concept. This study aims, through a descriptive research, to analyze the views of the academic community at the Federal University of Pampa – UNIPAMPA about the process of English writing and the demand for a writing center at the institution. In order to investigate these views, two questionnaires were developed, a pilot one, in 2018 and another one in 2021. Through the data collected, it was possible to have an overview of the community relationship with academic writing in English and the participants’ knowledge of the project of Centro de Escrita da Unipampa (CEU) that is being implemented at the institution. In this research the data suggests that there is a demand for a writing center at Unipampa, even though further studies need to be conducted in order to gather more in-depth or quantitative data.