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Quantitative Skills Tutoring (Tacoma)

The TLC Quantitative Center has both online and in-person tutoring. We offer in-person drop-in tutoring on the 2nd floor of the SNO building and retain minimal online appointments via Zoom on Mon-Fri evenings and Sundays during Spring, Autumn, and Winter quarters. Summer hours are reduced and vary. We are closed during the interims between fall and winter quarters and between winter and spring quarters. 

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Writing Center (Tacoma)

The writing center staff has professional staff members and student consultants representing a variety of majors. Graduate students or undergrads working on upper-level assignments, applications, personal statements, creative writing, or disciplinary citation styles may find it helpful to work with someone with a similar background.

Graduate students can also access the Grad Writing schedule to work with a professional staff member or student consultant with graduate writing experience.

Multilingual writers can work with any consultant.

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Quantitative Skills Center (Bothell)

The QSC promotes quantitative reasoning at UW Bothell through peer tutoring and faculty development. We aim to help UW Bothell students develop skills and confidence with quantitative reasoning. We do this by offering free drop-in tutoring, online tutoring, and equipment check-out. Our peer tutoring model involves asking a lot of questions, working through examples, and modeling the problem-solving process.

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Writing & Communication Center (Bothell)

The Writing & Communication Center (WaCC) supports students of all abilities, at any stage of the reading, writing, or presentation process. Want feedback on your paper, personal statement, or project? We can help. Our goal is to help you become a stronger, effective, more confident writer and communicator.

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Statistical Consulting Services (Seattle)

Faculty and graduate students in the Consulting Program of the Departments of Biostatistics and Statistics offer free statistical advice to University of Washington faculty, staff, and students through scheduled 50 minute consulting appointments during academic quarters. They provide assistance with:

  • the design of studies and experiments, including the preparation of grant proposals
  • data visualization and presentation
  • choice and application of statistical methods, and the interpretation of results
  • development of specialized statistical methods in some cases

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Center for Teaching and Learning (Seattle)

To promote learning and student success, the UW Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) supports the advancement of a teaching community that is collegial and committed to reflective, inclusive, equitable, and learner-centered teaching. The Center’s workshops and programs support instructors on all three UW campuses and it provides consultation services for instructors on the Seattle campus. CTL’s services are grounded in research, draw on established pedagogical approaches, promote innovation, and are deeply collaborative in nature.

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Research Commons (Seattle)

The UW Libraries Research Commons provides a collaborative environment in which students and faculty can come together to share and discuss research, as well as get support for all steps of the research process: searching, writing, publishing, funding. The Research Commons is a place to collaborate and connect with fellow students and faculty on research projects. It is a place for workshop and presentation opportunities, and a place to discover what your peers and colleagues are researching.

Consultation services include:

  • writing consultations for graduate students 
  • citation management help
  • design help desk
  • digital scholarship project help
  • and more!

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Odegaard Writing and Research Center (Seattle campus)

The UW Libraries Odegaard Writing and Research Center (OWRC) offers writing tutor support, informational guides, and podcasts about writing at the graduate level. The OWRC also offers an opportunity for graduate students to join a semi-formal writing accountability group for individuals working on long-term writing projects. 

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UW Libraries (Tri-campus)

The University of Washington Libraries

is a user-centered academic library

  • welcomes over 5 million users annually to 16 libraries on three campuses and one island from Friday Harbor to UW Tacoma
  • provides 24/7 online reference help by partnering with academic libraries around the world
  • uses assessment tools with feedback from students, faculty and staff to shape collections and services

with rich collections,

  • is home to the largest library collection in the Pacific Northwest with over 9 million books, journals, millions of microforms, thousands of maps, rare books, film, audio and video recordings
  • provides online access to thousands of academic ejournals, ebooks, databases, streamed audio and video, and datasets
  • supports the work of the University with world class collections that are particularly strong in STEM disciplines, Health Sciences, International Studies, Book Arts and Pacific Northwest history and culture
  • as well as other physical and online collections

Learn about each campus library: