Writing Resources for Graduate Students

WSU-specific Graduate Writing Resources

WSU has several support services and resources for graduate writers at all stages of the graduate experience. Most are free of charge and can be accessed multiple times to maximize your learning.

Graduate Writing Center


WSU Libraries


Writing as a Teaching Assistant

Courses

  • Enroll in a one-credit writing support course

WRITE 405 Course Description

This one-credit course provides individualized and small group instruction on the “moves” used in academic and professional writing, including journal articles, theses, and dissertations, as well as writing required for coursework. Using the textbook Academic Writing for Graduate Students: Essential Tasks and Skills 3rd Ed, students in this class perform exercises that cover the essential and nonessential components of writing the sections of academic papers—introductions, methods, results, discussions, and conclusions. Other topics, such as how to present data in multiple formats, how to qualify results, and how to tailor papers to match the conventions of specific disciplines are also discussed.

Questions? Contact the instructor by emailing writing.program@wsu.edu.

Other Graduate Writing Resources

Follow these links to an excellent selection of useful handouts, sentence starters, recordings, book recommendations, and software recommendations to strengthen your graduate writing.