Graduate Writing: Process

Overview

• Writing is a Process (Purdue University)

• Writing a Research Paper in the Humanities (Yale University)

• The Writing Process in Applied Sciences and Engineering (University of Toronto)

Getting Started

• Brainstorming (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

• Webbing (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

• Using Writing to Clarify Your Thinking (Explorations of Style Blog)

• Finding Literature on the State of Your Field (Scholar Studio Blog)

• Reading to Write (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

• Drawing Relationships (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

• Outlines (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

• How to Write a Topic Outline (City University of New York)

• Topic Outlines (Georgia Tech)

• Sentence Outlines (Walden University)

• Writing an Outline in the Sciences (Yale University)

• Developing a Topic in the Arts and Humanities (University of Southern California)

• From Note-Taking to Outlining: Beginning the Writing Process in Humanities Research Papers (Yale University)

• Choosing a Research Problem in the Social Sciences (University of Southern California)

• Preparing to Write in the Social Sciences (University of Southern California)

Drafting

• Audience (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

• Understanding the Needs of Your Reader (Explorations of Style Blog)

• Understanding Genre in Engineering (University of Toronto)

• On Paragraphs (Purdue University)

• Paragraph Development (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

• Paragraphs (Explorations of Style Blog)

• Topic Sentences (Aalto University, Finland)

• Academic Writing Structure (Central Penn College)

• Organizing Your Writing (Cal Tech)

• Making an Argument (Cal Tech)

• Structuring Your Argument (Lund University, Sweden)

Revising

• How to Respond to a “Revise and Resubmit” from an Academic Journal: Ten Steps to a Successful Revision (Get a Life, PhD Blog)

• Committing to Extensive Revision (Explorations of Style Blog)

• Revising Drafts (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

• Reorganizing Drafts (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

• Reverse Outlining (Explorations of Style Blog)

• Reverse Outlining (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

• How to Write a Sophisticated, Dynamic Scholarly Argument (Textbook and Academic Authors Blog)

• Developing Arguments (Walden University)

• Cohesion: Given-to-New Principle (Aalto University, Finland)

• Cohesion: Organizing Flow (Aalto University, Finland)

• Cohesion: Signposting (Aalto University, Finland)

• Transitions (Explorations of Style Blog)

Editing

• Conciseness (Purdue University)

• Conciseness (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

• Improving Your Writing Style (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Appropriate Language (Purdue University)

• Strategies for Variation (Purdue University)

• Sentence and Clause Arrangement for Emphasis (Purdue University)

• Parallel Structure (Purdue University)

• Grammar and Punctuation (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

• Grammar (Purdue University)

• Mechanics (Purdue University)

• Punctuation (Purdue University)

• Editing and Proofreading (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

• Proofreading (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

• Proofreading Your Paper (University of Southern California)