The Writing Centre鈥檚 Graduate Student Resources are designed to support you through every stage of advanced academic writing. Whether you are beginning a literature review, revising a dissertation chapter, seeking funding, or preparing for your doctoral defense, these resources offer practical guidance and strategies to help you work productively and confidently.
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Literature Reviews
Get you started on writing a literature review for a dissertation or for a more public-facing piece, such as an article or book chapters.
Professionalization
Resources that will help you get started on addressing your work in public-facing spaces.
Revision & Editing
Find resources that will help you move through the process of revision. In long-form writing it is important to think through the structure, logic and flow of your document.
Scholarships
Get started early on the planning and rough drafting the applications trying to secure internal and external funding for your research.
Writing Strategies
Find resources on three strategies that can help move your work forward: mind mapping, freewriting, and dictation.
Procrastination
Reflect on procrastination that you may be experiencing and consider productivity strategies that you can use to make the progress that you wish to achieve.
Dissertation Structures
You can find advice and examples as to how to structure your dissertation as a whole, and also how to write the individual chapters.
Doctoral Defense
While the doctoral defense is challenging, it is important to break down what鈥檚 involved and strategize to make the most of it.