1 / 9

Writing in Graduate School

Writing in Graduate School. Dr. Desiderio Kovar , MS&E Graduate Adviser. Use Available Resources. Sanger Learning Center http ://www.utexas.edu/ugs/slc/ grad Offers the only all-inclusive graduate writing assistance available on campus

brinly
Download Presentation

Writing in Graduate School

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Writingin Graduate School Dr. DesiderioKovar, MS&E Graduate Adviser

  2. Use Available Resources • Sanger Learning Center http://www.utexas.edu/ugs/slc/grad • Offers the only all-inclusive graduate writing assistance available on campus • Student can bring any form of writing – paper, thesis, dissertation, etc. • All students get three free tutoring sessions each semester • Program for Excellence in Engineering Communicationhttp://www.engr.utexas.edu/peec • Communication workshops for all engineering graduate students – check the web site for dates • Oral Communication and Writing Courses specifically for international students – highly recommended by students who have taken the course in the past

  3. Organizing a Paper • Introduction • Experimental Procedures • Results • Discussion • Conclusion • Acknowledgements • Citations

  4. Introduction • What is it? What does it include? • An introduction to the topic • Why this research is relevant to the field • Context of existing literature • Make it clear where the contribution is.

  5. Experimental Procedures/Results • Someone should be able to reproduce your experimental procedures exactly. • Include details like elemental purity • Results: • Can people compare their results to yours? • Include supplemental info. or an appendix if necessary.

  6. Discussion/Conclusion • Discussion = Analysis • What did you learn from the results? • What do the results tell you about your material? • Conclusion

  7. Acknowledgments/Authors • Who gets included in acknowledgements (as opposed to being listed as an author)? • Anyone who did not make a significant intellectual contribution to the work (e.g. lab technician) • What is the recommended author order? • 1st Author – Who did the most lab work? • Last Author – Principle Investigator • Everyone in between – in decreasing order of work contribution

  8. Candidacy Abstract • Candidacy Abstract • A statement explaining why this problem is worth studying from an academic perspective (note that this is not the same thing as the commercial relevance) • An explanation of the methods and techniques you intend to use to study/address the proposed question(s)

  9. Writing Tips • Use common sense • Reasonable font choice/size • 1-inch margins • Spelling/grammar check • Check the standard on using active/passive voice • Use consistent verb tenses throughout writing • Cite sources correctly

More Related