Dissertation Boot Camp: What Eighteen People Did on Their Summer Vacation


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Jointly offered as a partnership between the Graduate School and the Writing Center, UW-Madison’s Dissertation Boot Camp is based on dissertation camps offered at such institutions as Columbia University, Stanford University, the University of Illinois, the University of Minnesota, and Florida International University. (A special thanks to colleagues at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill […]

September 1, 2011

Sitting on Top of the World: A Multilingual Writing Center?


Multilingual Writers, Writing Center Tutors, Writing Centers

By Manuel Herrero-Puertas. In an increasingly globalized world, more students start their papers with the phrase “In an increasingly globalized world. . . .” Stale as this formula sounds, the truth is that globalization leaves no landscape unaltered. Consider academia. More than ever, universities provide international avenues where scholars from different countries meet and exchange […]

April 28, 2011

Spotlight on graduate student writers


Graduate Students, Science Writing, Student Voices, Writing Across the Curriculum, Writing Center Workshops

Did you know that approximately a third of the UW-Madison Writing Center’s visitors are graduate students? These writers come to the Center for assistance with course assignments, Master’s projects and theses, prelims, proposals, presentations, dissertations, publications, job application materials, and more! This week we’re turning the spotlight on two graduate students and asking them to […]

November 22, 2010