The Hume Center for Writing and Speaking (Hume Center) works with all Stanford students to help them develop rich and varied abilities in every aspect of writing and oral communication. In free individual sessions, Hume tutors help students get started on assignments; address and overcome writer's block or performance anxiety; learn strategies for revising, editing, and proofreading; and understand academic conventions in their fields.
Welcome Videos and Writing Tips for Frosh
The Hume Center provides resources to undergraduate and graduate students for any kind of writing and speaking at every stage of the process. In addition to individualized tutoring, we offer a range of workshops, events, and other programming to support a lively campus culture of communication. Browse our videos with writing tips from the Hume Center Director as well as peer and graduate writing tutors.
Hume Center for Writing and Speaking Canvas Page
To get in touch with Hume staff during email service interruptions or to see a drop-in writing tutor, please self-enroll in our Hume Center for Writing and Speaking Canvas page.
Watch the Recording
In Conversation with the Inaugural Poem
Shaping the Future with Language: A Student Write-In/Speak-In
Amanda Gorman's brilliant Inaugural Poem reminded us of the power language has to call us to reckon with our past, seek greater connection with each other, and build collective futures big enough for us all. In this virtual write-in/speak-in, students share their messages to Stanford and to the nation in conversation with the poem. Watch the recording to enjoy their original poetry, curated images and songs, and video performance.
This event was co-sponsored by the Program in Writing and Rhetoric and the Hume Center for Writing and Speaking. Special thanks to President Marc Tessier-Lavigne for his inspiring remarks and to A-lan Holt, director of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts, for her dynamic poetry.
Interested in learning more? See Anuka Mohanpuhr’s write-up in the Stanford Daily.
Hume Center Dates and Hours
All times in Pacific Time (PT)
Monday - Wednesday 9am - 9pm
Thursday 9am - 8pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Spring Quarter Tutoring Dates
Sunday, April 4 - Friday, June 4, 2021
