University:
Sam Houston State University
Course:
ENGL 3330 | Introduction to Technical Writing
Academic year:

2022
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34

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15
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SpaceCadet101

Writing at the Graduate Level What is Graduate Writing? • Graduate-level writing" is a deceptively simple term but the demands placed on students by the various disciplines, formats, and genres in which they write differ widely. • Most Social Sciences use APA style and format Sociology uses ASA style and format English and some Humanities use MLA style and format History students use Chicago style and format Some disciplines require Turabian style and format Punctuation • As a graduate student, you should be able to arrange your sentences in a manner that makes your meaning clear to a reader. • Punctuation marks tell readers bow to read your sentences whether they should speed up, slow down, get excited, ask a question, or pause, • Much like building a house, the little pieces reinforce the construction. Grammar At the graduate level you should know the terminology and learn to recognize the way grammatical constructs contribute to the structure of the English language. Your goal here is to understand how all the pieces-parts of speech, grammatical constructs, etc. fit together within a well-written sentence Characteristics of Quality Scholarly Writing It demonstrates your knowledge of the conventions of writing, including grammar, spelling, and punctuation. • It is well organized, with main ideas introduced early on and defended and refined through the paper. It is coherent and unified. It explores and explains worthwhile content. It is free from filler phrases, verbal tics, and space-wasters. It is aware of its audience. It situates itself within a discipline, discourse community, or scholarly field. Research • Any field of study has multiple sources of good information, and many of them are available through the Sam Houston State University-Newton Grisham Library. For example, Books Ebooks Databases for your field General databases Web resources

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