Graduate academic writing.

Since we wrote about it a couple of days ago, we have had a few questions from students about graduate academic writing. From those students it is clear that in some cases, students are not even sure what questions they want to ask. This usually means that people are too emotionally overwhelmed to formulate a question.

At the graduate level, academic writing usually has analysis embedded in it at every stage. Further, students should have a fairly developed understanding of the idiomatic language of their discipline. This means that graduate writing should reflect the fact while a given concept might be called one thing by philosophy majors, history majors would refer to the idea differently.

Each discipline has idiomatic language, in some cases that language has a long history, but in others, like business, it changes constantly. Whether you are in a field that likes to highlight their history or prefers to appear to always be new, you need a writer who understands what the expectations are.

If your school has a graduate writing center, consider going to them for assistance. If they do not have a graduate writing center or you are not able to use the service, online tutorials, like these from Yale, can be helpful.

If you are struggling, we can help. Developing your own graduate writing style can take time. In the meantime, you probably cannot afford poor grades or additional hours spent slowly developing papers for your classes while also trying to learn the basics of graduate writing.

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