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Graduate Writing Support

Graduate Writing Workshops

Navigating Research: Effective Note-Taking and Literature Management Techniques

October 7, 6pm-7pm

Writing a literature review? Working on a research paper? Here’s a good place to start. Learn about your “research workflow,” and the many possibilities that exist for finding, managing, and using scholarly sources in graduate writing!

Graduate Writing Mini-Lessons

These short lessons are meant to help get you on the right foot when you are working on a long writing project, like a thesis or dissertation. 

Creating a Writing Schedule

Having trouble balancing school, work, and your actual life? This mini-lesson breaks down the steps to creating a writing schedule that incorporates all of those things, and does its best to keep you sane during a very anxiety-inducing period in getting your degree.

Goal Setting

Learn how to set up achievable, productive, realistic goals that will see you through the process of writing your thesis/dissertation from beginning to end.

Handling and Applying Feedback

Better understand the kinds of feedback on your writing that you will encounter, both from your advisor/committee and from peers, and how to deal with the feelings that might come up when receiving that feedback. Use proven methods to prioritize and apply that feedback to make your writing even better.

Paraphrasing vs. Patchwriting

It can be difficult to figure out how to incorporate sources into your work without just dropping endless quotes into the text, or repeating back things you've already read while only changing a few words. Use this lesson to better understand how to paraphrase information to make it new and different from its original use. 

Revision Practices

Revision is the time when your best writing happens, so you should always take revising very seriously. In this mini-lesson, you will learn a revision method that helps you to understand exactly what you are trying to say, and to say it in the best way possible. 

Synthesis

Anyone who has worked on an literature review can tell you that trying to use sources both responsibly and smoothly can be difficult. This lesson will teach you about synthesis, which is the method of using external sources in conversation with each other and with your own ideas to create something new.

Writing Anxiety & Procrastination

Everyone procrastinates, and everyone feels like they don't know how to write. This lesson will help you to understand why you feel intimidated by the fact that you have to write something like a thesis or dissertation, and will hopefully give you some tools to work through those feelings. 

Thesis, Dissertation, and Academic Paper Drop-Off

The Writing Center offers a drop-off service for longer pieces of graduate student writing. After uploading your document, your work will be assigned to a Graduate Tutor. Your tutor will read your uploaded document, keeping in mind any special areas of concern you have indicated, and will respond as a reader. This feedback will be sent to you in a client report form through the automated system. There is a 25-page limit to the documents uploaded to the drop-off service; if you intend to send a document that is longer than 25 pages, please know that your assigned tutor will only work on 25 pages per drop-off. If you so choose, you may schedule an appointment with your tutor, to discuss your feedback after your tutor has returned it to you.

To access this service, please visit  and be sure to indicate your standing as a Graduate student in the form you complete as you make your appointment.

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