The University Writing Center is offering two programs designed to help doctoral candidates as they work on their dissertations — a two-week intensive “boot camp” during Winter Session and a ...

Writing a dissertation is one of the most important stages in the life of a student. A successfully written dissertation is something that differentiates a student from a scholar. And while writing a ...

Do you have any suggestions for motivating graduate students to meet their dissertation-writing deadlines? I'm working with several bright and energetic students, but they all have difficulty meeting ...

On March 14, Assistant Director of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Mandy Olejnik successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Writing Across the (Graduate) Curriculum: Toward Systemic Change ...

On a recent August morning on the seventh floor of the Merchandise Mart, 20 advanced graduate students sat in what must have been the quietest room in the entire city of Chicago. Except for the ...

Writing a dissertation is, perhaps, one of the most tasking jobs for college students. The fast-paced nature of modern society has made it harder for students to spare time for completing voluminous ...

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Since 2013, I’ve been teaching a two-week interdisciplinary dissertation workshop in early summer at the University of Cincinnati. Under normal conditions, the students and I meet for five hours each ...

Shelby Ross is one of this year’s 2025-2026 Elouise Cobell Dissertation Writing-Year Fellows Shelby Ross, a PhD student in geography, has been named as part of the second cohort of the prestigious ...

The Interdisciplinary Humanities PhD Candidate of the University of California, Merced, Genevieve Egbunno, has been awarded the McClatchy Dissertation Research and Writing Fellowship for the Fall 2025 ...