Graduate Writing Lab

Graduate Writing Lab

The Graduate Writing Lab (GWL) offers free appointments for graduate students. Students meet with trained and certified graduate tutors who offer helpful feedback on any kind of writing at any point in the process.

Graduate Writing Lab Spring 2024 Schedule:
  • Monday - Thursday 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
  • Sunday - 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Support Styles:
  • Graduate Writing Lab - Writing Tutoring
  • Graduate Writing Lab - Feedback Loop 

The Graduate Writing Lab is a collaboration between the Graduate Center and THINK TANK. Emphasizing peer collaboration, we help each writer grow over the course of their career at the University of Arizona through several styles of consultations, workshops, and events.

During each session, tutors get acquainted with the student’s writing, answer questions, identify patterns, make recommendations, and help the student come up with a plan for moving forward. Tutors can serve as a second set of eyes on personal statements, application essays, lab reports, theses, dissertations, resumes, fellowships, and even professional emails. While Graduate Tutors cannot help students with exams, we are happy to help with all other types of writing.

You can use the scheduling system Retain to sign up for Graduate Writing Lab services. Limit one appointment per day and two appointments per week. Please book no more than three appointments at a time.

  • Click the button below to sign in to Retain with your NetID and password.
  • In the THINK TANK Services box on the right side of your Retain dashboard, you can click the blue Writing Center button and then select a service. The topmost services are graduate-student specific, though you are welcome to use all Writing Center services.
  • Click here to learn more about using Retain.

Access Retain

For information about other Graduate Writing Lab services, please visit https://gradcenter.arizona.edu/graduate-writing-lab. For information about general graduate student services, please visit https://gradcenter.arizona.edu.

If you would like to sign up for a different type of service, please visit the Writing Center home page.