2 Law School Personal Statements That Succeeded <\/strong><\/a>(Ilana Kowarski<\/span>, U.S. News & World Report) 10 tips for writing a grad school personal statement<\/strong><\/a> (Billie Streufert, USA Today) Advice for Writing Personal Statements<\/a> (George Mason University, The Writing Center) How to Write a Personal Statement<\/a> (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Career Center) Personal Statement Guide<\/a> (Binghamton University) Writing the Personal Statement<\/strong><\/a> (Purdue OWL) Writing Your Medical School Personal Statement<\/strong><\/a> (The Princeton Review) Writing Your Personal Statement<\/a> (University of Delaware, Career Center) Introduction to Graduate Writing<\/strong> <\/a>(Dr. Emily Heady, Liberty University Graduate Writing Center) In addition, this workbook will give students limited practice in discipline-specific skills such as citation.”<\/p>\n Graduate Student Writing Resources<\/strong><\/a> (Portland University, Writing Center) Graduate Writing Overview<\/a> (Purdue University) Temple University Harrisburg Guide To Graduate Level Writing<\/strong><\/a> (Temple University; retrieved from Utica College Resources for Graduate Students) (PowerPoint Presentation Download) How to Read a Primary Source<\/strong><\/a> (University of Iowa, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences: History) Research Using Primary Sources<\/strong><\/a> (University of Maryland, University Libraries) A Source\u2019s Role in Your Paper<\/strong><\/a> (Harvard College Writing Program) What are Primary Sources?<\/strong><\/a> (Yale University) What Are You Supposed To Do With Sources?<\/strong><\/a> (Harvard College Writing Program) What is Primary Research and How Do I Get Started?<\/strong><\/a> (Purdue OWL) Common Problems with IRB Applications<\/strong><\/a> (糖心vlog, IRB) How do I improve my consent’s “readability”, or lower its “reading level”?<\/a> (糖心vlog, IRB) (PDF) Identifying and Avoiding Bias in Research<\/strong><\/a> (Christopher J. Pannucci and Edwin G. Wilkins, National Center for Biotechnology Information) 糖心vlog: Institutional Review Board<\/strong><\/a> (糖心vlog, IRB) Readable<\/strong><\/a> Tips to Reduce IRB Application Turnaround Time<\/strong><\/a> (The University of Mississippi) Graduate School Papers and You<\/strong><\/a> (Tara Kuther, Thought Co.) Writing Tips for PhD Students<\/strong><\/a> (John H. Cochrane, University of Chicago) (PDF) Abstracts<\/a> (UNLV Writing Center) (PDF) How Theses Get Written: Some Cool Tips<\/strong><\/a> (Steve Easterbrook, University of Toronto) (PDF) How to Organize your Thesis<\/strong><\/a> (John W. Chinneck, Carleton University) Prospectus Writing<\/strong><\/a> (Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning) Resources for Dissertators<\/strong><\/a> (University of Wisconsin \u2013 Madison, The Writing Center) Time Management Tips for Dissertation Writing<\/strong><\/a> (Elizabeth Gritter, UNC Chapel Hill; Retrieved from The Southern Association for Women Historians) (PDF) Writing a Literature Review<\/strong><\/a> (Purdue Owl)
\nAn article that discusses successful personal statements for law school.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWhile you cannot change your grade point average or entrance exam scores, you have complete control over the contents of your personal statement. There are many applicants and few spots, so work diligently to persuade readers that you fit their program given your qualifications, interests and professional goals. Use the tips below to prepare and refine your essay.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nA list of rhetorical questions to ask yourself when preparing a personal statement.<\/p>\n
\nProvides tips for writing personal statements.<\/p>\n
\nIncludes strategies for focusing your essay, resources, and tips.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThis handout provides information about writing personal statements for academic and other positions.\u201d It includes rhetorical questions to ask yourself before you begin writing and helpful advice. The following sections are also excellent resources:<\/p>\n\n
\nA brief list of tips for writing a personal statement when you\u2019re applying to medical school.<\/p>\n
\nAn overview of writing personal statements with general tips, a suggested process, self-reflective questions, and a list of \u201cdos\u201d and \u201cdon\u2019ts.\u201d<\/p>\nEXPECTATIONS AND GOALS OF GRADUATE-LEVEL WRITING<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\n“Some characteristics of good graduate-level writing remain consistent across disciplinary boundaries. This workbook is designed to give students practice in these areas, which include the following:<\/p>\n\n
\nHere you\u2019ll learn about the differences between undergraduate and graduate-level writing, research, language use, documentation, and integrating evidence.<\/p>\n
\nFour helpful videos that offer an introductory overview of graduate writing.<\/p>\n
\nThis PowerPoint presentation provides students with a way to approach writing a 10-12-page paper, from finding a topic to making final edits. It also includes information on making sentence-level revision, with emphases on the following topics: clarity, semantics, positive phrases, subordination, parallel structure, and paragraph construction. Finally, the presentation offers a brief overview of APA citations.<\/p>\nUSING PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND TERTIARY SOURCES<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nThis source provides a series of critical thinking questions to help you analyze a primary source based on its purpose, argument, presuppositions, epistemology, and relationship to other texts.<\/p>\n
\nPrimary, secondary and tertiary sources are explained with definitions and examples. Included on this page you will also find a short video detailing specific criteria for evaluating sources.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cWhen you begin to draft your paper, you will need to decide what role each of your sources will play in your argument. In other words, you will need to figure out what you’re going to do with the source in your paper. As you consider what role each source will play in your paper, you should begin by thinking about the role that source played in your research process.\u201d This source offers \u201ca list of questions to help you decide how you’re going to use each of your sources.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nPrimary Sources at Yale divides primary sources into the following categories, with detailed explanations and tools for finding sources within each category: Books and Pamphlets, Serials, Government Documents, Manuscript and Archival Material, Maps, Realia\/Artifacts, Tablets, Visual Materials, Music, Sound Recordings, Oral History and Dissertations.<\/p>\n
\nIdentifying useful sources is an important part of the research process, but it is equally important to understand how to use these sources effectively in your paper. This source details how to consider your sources in the context of your central research question, discipline, and scope of your paper.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cPrimary research involves collecting data about a given subject directly from the real world. This section includes information on what primary research is, how to get started, ethics involved with primary research and different types of research you can do. It includes details about interviews, surveys, observations, and analysis.\u201d<\/p>\nIRB APPLICATIONS<\/h2>\n
\nThe 糖心vlog IRB has compiled a list of common issues with applications they review. Here is a list of these issues and a description of the measures you can take when completing your application to avoid them.<\/p>\n
\nThis document explains how to test your document\u2019s readability according to the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level and the steps you can take to improve its readability.<\/p>\n
\nIn the second section of this article, \u201cPre-trial bias,\u201d you can learn about \u201cthe importance of clearly defining both risk and outcome, the necessity of standardized protocols for data collection, and the concepts of selection and channeling bias.\u201d Clearly defining, acknowledging, and\/or avoiding non-intentional bias in your research design will help you submit a well-planned and thorough IRB application.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe purpose of this website is to provide investigators and the research community at the University with the information and materials that are needed to obtain IRB approval of research that involves human participants.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nReadability is a measure of how easy a piece of text is to read. It can include elements of complexity, familiarity, legibility and typography. Readability formulas usually look at factors like sentence length, syllable density and word familiarity as part of their calculations.<\/p>\n
\nThese tips from the University of Mississippi include some best practices for all researchers submitting IRB applications.<\/p>\nWRITING TERM PAPERS<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nKuther explains the importance of recognizing short papers in graduate school as furthering scholarly exploration, creating opportunities for constructive feedback, improving writing skills, and preparing for a thesis or dissertation.<\/p>\n
\nCochrane offers tips for PhD students who are organizing, writing, and presenting seminar papers. Although he focuses mostly on business writing, much of his advice can be useful for all postgraduate writers.<\/p>\nWRITING YOUR THESIS, PROSPECTUS OR DISSERTATION<\/strong><\/h2>\n
\nThis page defines what an abstract is providing samples.<\/p>\n
\nThese presentation slides offer tips for writing your thesis and insights into how your examiner\/advisor might review or comment on your work.<\/p>\n
\nThis page highlights the importance of graduate research, offers a generic thesis structure, and provides some suggestions for writing your thesis.<\/p>\n
\nThis site includes guidelines and links to prospectus examples from different disciplines.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThis page lists some useful books and websites for graduate students working on dissertations.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nIn this handout, Gritter presents time management strategies for people who are writing their dissertations.<\/p>\n
\n“A literature review is a document or section of a document that collects key sources on a topic and discusses those sources in conversation with each other (also called synthesis). The lit review is an important genre in many disciplines, not just literature (i.e., the study of works of literature such as novels and plays). When we say \u201cliterature review\u201d or refer to \u201cthe literature,\u201d we are talking about the research (scholarship) in a given field. You will often see the terms \u201cthe research,\u201d \u201cthe scholarship,\u201d and \u201cthe literature\u201d used mostly interchangeably.”<\/p>\n