Writing Help For the Graduate Students

The CSU Writing Center offers you two types of assistance: individualized tutoring and the resources outlined below. A writing consultant can speed up the process of writing. Below are book references and some web links that may assist you with various aspects of writing in graduate school. If you would like to discuss any of these resources, please dial extension 6982
 

Beginning a Thesis

• The best book on writing a book proposal is Thinking Like Your Editor by Susan Rabiner. Very clearly written, this book will help you distill a great deal of research into a clear, focused proposal.
• Many books exist on writing theses and dissertations. One you might consider is Theses and Dissertations: A Guide to Planning, Researching, and Writing by R. Murray Thomas and Dale L. Brubaker, published by Bergin & Garvey in 2000 in Westport , Connecticut.
• Prof. Rachel Carnell of the English Department offers these suggestions
  for those of you writing a Master's thesis:
• Reflection techniques for your best sources:
  Sitting with Sources
• Writing a Review of Literature
• How to Finish a Writing Project
   

Writing a Personal Statement for Graduate School

• Helpful techniques for writing a personal statement:
  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/642/1/
• http://www.csuohio.edu/writing-center/personal-statements
   

Special Types of Assignments

• A description of a research proposal and annotated bibliography:
  http://www.csuohio.edu/writing-center/evaluative-mode-1
• A description of a researched position paper
  http://www.csuohio.edu/writing-center/researched-position-paper
• A description of a segmented report
  http://www.csuohio.edu/writing-center/segmented-report
   

Common Writing Issues

• Some common false ideas regarding plagiarism
  http://www.csuohio.edu/writing-center/common-misunderstandings-about-plagiarism
• A Plagiarism Quiz to consider various facets of paraphrasing
• Plagiarism Quiz
• Changing your language from informal to formal
  http://www.csuohio.edu/writing-center/informal-formal
• Grammar Web Exercises (in case you need to find some grammatical point)
• http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm
• The Best APA Style Sheet Handout 
•  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
• The Best MLA Style Sheet Handout
  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/