Undergraduate and graduate level writing have a number of differences, but your undergraduate writing experience serves as a foundation for moving on to the graduate level. There are two main paths ...

Make sure your proposal is original, well-written and can be understood by an educated layperson. Ask a friend from outside of your department to read your proposal and explain its significance.

The Writing Center offers a suite of services for graduate students including standard 50-minute one-to-one sessions through our main appointment schedule, workshops, and extended writing support in ...

This workshop first explores what counts as academic writing, then presents 15 tools and tips to help you as a graduate student writer develop productive practices to sustain you through your graduate ...

The two essays most commonly associated with graduate school applications are the statement of purpose and the personal statement. This is an opportunity for you to connect more deeply with both the ...

When Seyed Saman Khedmatgozar Dolati first arrived at FIU, he didn't have any published journal papers. Now, the Ph.D. candidate in civil engineering has authored more than 20, and he wants to help ...

Writing a thesis provides a chance to produce a substantial piece of scholarship with an original argument that goes beyond the constraints of a typical term paper. Some students write a thesis ...

This handout is available for download in DOCX format and PDF format. Graduate and professional schools often require some sort of written statement—often called a “statement of purpose,” “personal ...