The mission of the Odegaard Writing and Research Center is to collaboratively support students, staff, and faculty at the University of Washington as they navigate processes of focused inquiry:
- developing and revising questions,
- evaluating and engaging with source material,
- conducting original research,
- applying and testing theoretical frameworks, and
- iteratively drafting and revising new findings and arguments in order to communicate them in ways aligned with disciplinary contexts, intended audiences, and the authors’ purposes.
In so doing, we aim to support writers and researchers as they situate their work within more visible and useful inquiry processes that can then be extended to other contexts and purposes, both within and beyond the University, in order to facilitate learning throughout their lives.
