September 2018

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Writing, Media, and Professional Development

Writing, Media, and Professional Development

The role of new media, usually delivered via the internet, is central to your development as graduate students. As I will discuss in this post, taking a deliberate approach to learning and using new media applications can significantly enhance your academic transition to graduate-level education and your professional opportunities and growth as a scholar in […]

Why MASLOW?

Why MASLOW?

In the often slow and complex process of learning the many and increasingly advanced skills for written communication in graduate school, the vast majority of graduate students, both international and domestic, depend on their academic advisors and on any resources that may be available in their respective departments (which are often limited or missing). Other […]

Power Tips for Professors

Power Tips for Professors

Helping International Graduate Students Succeed Roughly half of the one million international students in the United States are in graduate education. While undergraduate level has “general education” curriculum to help students coming from other countries learn the writing, research, and communication skills demanded by higher education here, there is usually no such curriculum at the […]

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