The following resources pertain to graduate students specifically in addition to our overall Writer Resources. You may also be interested in Strategies for Graduate Writers as well.
Scriptorium: A Place to Write
Dissertation Writing Retreat (formerly Dissertation Bootcamp)
- UWM Graduate School’s 3-Day Dissertation Writing Retreat, Jan 9-11, 2024. Dissertators will find the link on the Dissertation Basecamp site
- Strategies for Graduate Writers and Others Working on Long Papers – Helpful guidelines so you can plan accordingly and make the best use of your session.
- Writing Groups – This multipage resource from University of North Carolina explores how to start and maintain an effective writing group.
- UWM Grad Student Resource Network – A private Facebook group open to any UWM graduate student.
Further Support for Students
- If you are a current or new student to UWM and have a documented disability, the Accessibility Resource Center can help you apply for accommodations for academics and university housing. For example, they may offer assistive technologies as well as training for their effective use, both inside and outside the classroom.
- “Let’s Talk” is a program that provides brief, walk-in consultations for UWM students with counselors from the Student Health & Wellness Center. It is free and no appointment is necessary.
- Assistive Technologies Resources
Style Guides
- Documentation Style Guides – AP, APA, MLA, Chicago styles, and more
- UWM Graduate School Formats – Master’s Thesis and Doctoral Dissertation Format Requirements from the UWM Graduate School
CVs, Resumes, Cover Letters and Statements
For comprehensive career services, we strongly encourage UWM students and alumni to also visit the UWM Center for Student for Experience and Talent (SET).
- Curriculum Vitae and Related Topics — (from University of Virginia)
- CVs and Cover Letters (PDF)– Academic job-oriented (from Harvard University)
- Personal Statements (PDF) – (from UWM Professor Jason Puskar)
- Teaching Statements – (from Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching)
- How to Write an Effective Diversity Statement – (from Inside Higher Ed)
- Artist Statements – (from UWM Professor Nathaniel Stern)
Faculty Consultations
For Graduate Students Only—Meet with a Faculty Consultant
This service is offered in addition to our peer tutoring services.
In addition to the Center’s one-on-one graduate-level peer tutoring, we offer exclusively to graduate students the opportunity to meet confidentially with a volunteer faculty consultant–typically someone outside of their major–to discuss the most critical writing projects, e.g., preliminary exams, dissertation proposals or chapters, or job materials.
Faculty consultations are meant to supplement the feedback from tutors and others, i.e., another resource to gain perspective on your writing project. These consults offer a chance to broadly discuss with a faculty member, your writing strategies and practices, and the rhetorical and genre-related issues entailed in graduate-level writing.
Just as with all Writing Center sessions, faculty consultations are conversational and interactive, designed to help you produce your best work.
- To make an appointment call the Center 414-229-4339 or email Margaret Mika, Writing Center Director mmika@uwm.edu
- Graduate students (only) may reserve up to two 1-hour appointments per semester
- Students who miss an appointment without giving 24 hours’ notice forfeit the right to this service