Summer 2019
Class Board
Day 1 (Monday, 7/22/2019)
Link: UC Davis Statement of Purpose & Pesonal History & Diversity Statement for Graduate Students
Link: UC Davis Graduate Programs
Slides: Principles of Academic Writing
Slides: Statement of Purpose vs. Personal Statement
Peer Review Sample Statement of Purpose
Day 2 (Wednesday, 7/24/2019)
Slides: Peer Review
Slides: Personal Statement
Slides: Sample Personal Statement
Day 3 (Monday, 7/29/2019)
Slides: Abstracts
Helpful Links & Supplemental Reading:
OWL Purdue (online writing lab at Purdue University)
Audience & Academic Discourse Community
The Academic Discourse Community (Noorgard)
Why Peer Review Journals? (Do)
Statement of Purpose
What’s a Good Statement of Purpose? by Eamonn Callan
Sample Statement – MIT (750 words/about 4,000 characters)
Sample Statement – MIT (marked)
Personal Statement
Link: Writing a Winning Personal Statement for Graduate School
Abstracts
How to Write an Abstract (Carroll)
Victoria University of Wellington “Writing an Abstract”
Read & Writing Process for Graduates
Critical Reading for Graduate Students
Principles of Academic & Professional Writing
Constructing Proximity: Relating to readers in popular and professional science by Ken Hyland
PPT Slides for Constructing Proximity (5 facets summarized)
Editing Strategies & Advice
Editing and Proofreading – by VanderMey, Randall et al. (2007)
The Paramedic Method for Editing
Choosing the correct article (a,an.the or no article)