Thanks to the tireless efforts of our Graduate Student Peers, Graduate Division staff, and many other guest contributors, the UCSB GradPost has been going strong for two years. Over this time we have posted over 1,000 articles, tips, funding opportunities, jobs, events, and more. To highlight some of our most useful resources, we will be featuring the best GradPost articles from a number of categories in the upcoming weeks.
Today we bring you our best resources for writing:
- Super Helpful Books for Writing the Thesis, Dissertation and Proposal (8/15/10): Some books to help with writing
- Writing Tip of the Week: Recognize Patterns (10/25/10): Succinct advice on how to recognize patterns in your writing
- Writing Tip of the Week: Metadiscourse! (11/3/10): How to use metadiscourse techniques to guide your reader
- Writing Tip of the Week: Academic Sentence Constructions (Part I) (11/19/10) and Writing Tip of the Week: Academic Sentence Constructions (Part II) (12/1/10): Some useful tips to improve your sentence structure
- Writing Tip of the Week: It's Okay to Talk to Yourself (2/3/11): Why reading your writing out loud can help you improve
- Writing Tip of the Week: Write Every Day! (2/24/11): Writing just 15 minutes a day can streamline your writing
- Learning Together: The Benefits of Peer Review (2/20/12): Using Google Docs for collaborative reviewing
- Organizing and Preparing for Research (5/21/12): Academic peer Torrey Trust shares an option for tracking your dissertation research
- Defining Your Research Topic (6/7/12): How to settle on a research topic
- Writing...You Can Do It! (10/10/12): Eight writing tips to help you get started