Below are writing resources specifically crafted for graduate students:
Writing Graduate-Level Essays
Essay Resources
- The Writing Process: We are walking you through the entirety of the writing process with this comprehensive guide. Each step contains multiple resources to help different types of learners understand how to navigate the college essay.
- Writing in the Majors: The Writing Center has compiled a page with writing resources tailored to all of the majors. By clicking on the corresponding major, students will also be able to identify an approximation of how much writing could be required as well as the types of writing assignments in any class.
- Specific Writing Related Resources
- Painless Paragraphs (pdf) from Tanner Health System School of Nursing.
- Analyzing Texts and Structuring Papers: Curated resources (and a repository of our handouts) on textual analysis, semiotics and Analyze Anything, outlines, paper structure, and word choice. Most of the resources listed are from Grammar Girl and Ted-Ed videos.
- Citation Resources: This page includes information about MLA, APA, Chicago as well as a few other citation styles utilized across campus.
Research Resources
- Research: We have crafted a resource to help you navigate the research process. This page includes brainstorming an idea, searching for sources, creating an argument, crafting the assignment, and revising the final draft in addition to a curated list of resources provided by the library as well as video essay examples.
- Sources
- Carnegie Vincent Library crafted a video on the difference between scholarly and popular sources.
- Ingram Library's database list to find scholarly sources.
- Annotated Bibliography
- The Tanner Health System School of Nursing's document on how to construct an APA annotated bibliography (pdf) / MLA annotated bibliography (pdf). [The citation formats might no longer be correct, but the information on annotations is.]
Additional Resources
- Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share research.
Literature Review
Queensland University of Technology defines a literature review as "a critical analysis of published sources, or literature, on a particular topic. It is an assessment of the literature and provides a summary, classification, comparison and evaluation."
- The Tanner Health System School of Nursing's step-by-step guide on how to structure a Literature Review (pdf).
- UNC-Chaple Hill's example of how to writing a literature review.
- Writing a Literature Review (pdf) from Stanford University
Discussion Posts
- Tanner Health System School of Nursing created a document on how to craft a graduate-level discussion post (pdf).
Oral Exit Exam
Dissertation and Thesis
- UWG Graduate School's handbook for the guidelines on formatting dissertations and theses.
- Senior Thesis Writing Guides from Harvard College
Additional Resources
- New Student Orientation is the link to further resources provided by the University for graduate students.