Resources
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
- Schedule a free writing consultation with a peer or professional writing consultant
Professional Development Initiative
- Attend a free workshop
- View recordings of past workshops
- Apply for a subsidized Grammarly subscription
WSU Libraries
- Use the Graduate Student Summer Writing Success Lib Guide
- Review a Lib Guide for your discipline
- Meet with your subject librarian
Professional Editing Service Center
- Hire a professional editor to work on your document (Some services require an advisor’s approval.)
Writing as a Teaching Assistant
- Check out our Tips for Teaching with Writing
Courses
- Enroll in a one-credit writing support course
WRIT 205 Course Description
This one-credit course provides individualized and small group instruction designed to help undergraduate writers improve their sentence and paragraph writing skills. The sentence skill development exercises in this course emphasize the types of sentences most commonly used in writing assignments across the disciplines. The class also provides instruction on building effective paragraphs (descriptive, expository, narrative, and persuasive) and shaping them for use within specific disciplinary genres and conventions.
WRIT 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 Melanie at melanie.thongs@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.
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Please email us at gwc.wsu@wsu.edu. Thank you!