Writing help

I recently attended a webinar on doctoral writing resources put on by the writing center. I thought I would share some of these great resources. 

Capstone writing community. This is online community for students in the proposal stage and beyond. There is an opportunity to interact asynchronously (as in facebook, or class discussions) and through weekly meetings online with the writing center faculty member, Kevin Schwandt. This community is only for students- no faculty have access. So you can complain and seek help without any concern that your chair or committee member will see what you have written. If you are interested in this, contact kevin.schwandt@waldenu.edu 

Developmental editing. This service is designed for students that are not progressing due to their writing issues. There is the opportunity to work one-on-one with an editor for 4 consecutive weeks. Every week you are given very specific weekly goals and the editor offers help on the writing issues. The chair must submit an application for the student to be considered for this service, it is available at http://libraryguides.waldenu.edu/capstonefaculty If your chair has questions about the service, he or she can contact tobias.ball@waldenu.edu 

Dissertation editing questions. There is also a separate email account for question just about the dissertation: editor@waldenu.edu

There are other great resources available in the writing center – check them out! 

Next time, we will take a look at outlines. Do you have an issue or a question that you would like me to discuss in a future post? Send me an email with your ideas. leann.stadtlander@waldenu.edu