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Yes. Our peer writing consultants come from a wide variety of UCF majors and programs. While they might know the exact conventions of your discipline or have the background to immediately understand the content of your writing, they are trained and highly-skilled collaborators proficient in asking questions to learn more about your specific writing task and goals. Most writers find that having the opportunity to explain what they\u2019re working on and think through it with someone else is valuable, even if the consultant doesn\u2019t have the technical or discipline-specific background of, say, a faculty advisor or mentor. In fact, having to explain what you\u2019re working on to someone else can be a good way of checking both your own understanding and thinking about how different audiences might understand and appreciate your work. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes. Our peer writing consultants come from a wide variety of UCF majors and programs. 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