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WWU Western Libraries provides excellent services to
graduate students, including access to its collection and collections
at other libraries, instruction in conducting library research, and
interlibrary loan for obtaining journal articles and books not
available in the WWU library. A new system, Cascade, allows students
to simultaneously search the holdings (more than 10 million items -
books, journals, videos, and other material) of all six public higher
institutions in Washington. In
addition, students can request books from these institutions.
Extension students
have a librarian and services designated specifically to their needs.
Books and journal articles can be sent directly to extension students
from the WWU library or through the library's interlibrary loan
process. To learn more about these services, visit the
off-campus librarian website at:
http://www.library.wwu.edu/ref/subjects/extended/.
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The Writing Center works with all level of
student writing. This
service may be particularly helpful for students who have not been in
school for awhile and want some assistance in strengthening their
writing skills. Writing
conferences are provided (both on-line and in-person) in which
students work with writing assistants to identify patterns of strength
and possible areas for revision and editing in draft assignments. In
online conference, writers submit their drafts via a web form and
receive responses in the form of emails from writing assistants.
Because the Writing Center believes in writing as a process,
staff encourage writers to visit the Writing Center at any point while
writing, whether it be for help in selecting a topic or in polishing a
final draft. Additional
information about the Writing Center is available at www.ac.wwu.edu/~writepro/.
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