How It Works

Our writing club is to guide you routine your writing habit, not to write for you. In other words, we are going to write together to enhance our academic productivity. So far, we are not going to provide feedback but we could have it if everyone or most of the members are interested in. 

​1. If you are interested in joining this club, you can submit your application form via the link below. Once your application is received, we would contact you to inform the regular meeting time and guidelines.

Application Submission

2. If you join it, you can choose the options:  Online and In-Person. 

  • If you want to join an in-person writing club meeting, please contact Dr. William Bergeron (wabergeron@ua.edu). 
  • If you want to join an online club meeting, please contact Dr. Jewoong Moon (jmoon19@ua.edu).
  • Of course, you can join both meetings as well.

If you want to join the writing club online, you will be invited to join a “​gather.town” platform, which is a virtual meeting application. 

Gather.town interface. You can create your animated character and move around the virtual meeting place.

Gather.town Interface

How you can start with (Online)

  1. You need to sign up the app (gather.town) and create your character.
  2. You can let Dr. Jewoong Moon know your gather.town account and you will be then invited to the meeting place.
  3. We will join the gather.town meeting place at the meeting time (1-3 hours) every week.
    1. A meeting time would be every Thursday evening (7-9PM). You could stay longer if you want.
    2. Everyone is encouraged to stay at least 1 hour for the writing.
    3. At the beginning of every meeting, you are asked to introduce yourself and share your writing plan (writing topic, goal, and estimated word counts).
    4. We could set a time block for the intensive writing (25 minutes writing / 5 minutes rest).
    5. If you want to leave the meeting earlier, you could log out anytime.
    6. Any updates/changes of the schedule will be informed through the email.