This article argues that composition should be involved in the study and teaching of graduate level writing. It goes on to argue that independent consulting offers a viable way for compositionists to share expertise with graduate students and programs, as well as to expand opportunities for participation in the profession. While the independent consultant and the adjunct share temporary, insecure working conditions and ineligibility for employee-sponsored benefits, these conditions are given different meanings by the very different agency, pay, and taxes associated with each role. This article makes a corollary argument: that the field of composition should be involved in working with graduate students "outside" of English. The changing demographics of graduate education also necessitate rethinking conventional graduate pedagogies. While apprenticeship models can be effective, they may inadvertently disadvantage students for whom graduate school is not a full-time immersion experience; students in relatively short degree programs; returning students; students in distance education; and those coming out of educationally underserved communities. Consulting may be an especially appropriate model at the graduate level where the relative decentralization of writing leaves room to envision and experiment with new ways to work with academic units. Writing consulting provides a vehicle for offering writing expertise either within universities or, as the author suggests, in the context of independent consultancies.