Writing & Tutoring Center

OUR MISSION:

Our mission is to support your academic success by providing you with tutoring services that supplement your classroom instruction and lead you into a lifetime of successful learning.

The Writing & Tutoring Centers share a location, experienced staff, and the passion to help foster success in TCC students. We provide free peer tutoring to students who wish to supplement their classroom instruction. Tutoring is available to all students enrolled in college credit classes at TCC.

Our tutors are carefully selected, highly skilled, and dedicated to help students succeed. We take pride in helping students understand concepts, develop learning strategies, and acquire the skills necessary to excel academically.

The Writing & Tutoring Center is located on the 2nd floor of the Learning Resource Center, Building 7, Room 221.For our hours, click here.

We offer:

• Individual appointments
  
• Drop-in times for English/writing and EAP
  
• Group tutoring (by request of students or instructors)
  
• Computers for drafting
  
• Handouts and other resources
  
• WRITE096

Additional Services . . .

• A Drop-in Grammar Corner (open session)
• Drop-in biology and chemistry tutoring in the A.L.L. on Wednesday afternoons.
• Online tutoring for writing, math, science, statistics, and accounting

We have tutoring available for the following subjects (if yours isn’t listed below, please contact us!):

• All kinds of writing
• English, literature, humanities, reading, speech, and education
• ESL, EAP, and ABE courses
• MATH
• Some HD, business, and GBUS courses
• Philosophy, polisci, history, and journalism
• Anthropology, psychology, and sociology
• Chemistry, physics, and biology (including microbio. and A&P), and HT (130) oceanography, environmental studies
• Spanish
• CU and Office courses
• Accounting and statistics
• General research, documentation, and study skills.

Our tutors are here to help TCC students become more skillful, confident, and resourceful students. Tutors strive to provide a comforting environment in which they will help you identify and solve writing problems, come up with new strategies for improvement in your coursework, and learn to apply these strategies to your writing and other assignments.

Contact information:                       

• Front desk: 253.566.6032
• Heather Urschel-Speir: 253.566.5184 hurschelspeir@tacomacc.edu
• Scott Perkins: 253.566.6041 sperkins@tacomacc.edu
• Lea Wallace: 253.460.3927 lwallace@tacomacc.edu