Writing Center

• Personal statement: What is it? How do you write it?
• Additional resources from other writing centers
  • Indiana University Bloomington: Personal Statements and Application Letters
  • UMass Amherst: Personal Statements
  • Purdue OWL Graduate School Applications

UConn Library

• Home / UConn Library
• Research Guides Your one-stop portal to help you with your research! By Subject/Group/Type/Recommendation
  • Literature Review: The What, Why and How-to Guide — Getting Started This guide will help you understand what is a Literature Review, why it is important and how it is done.
  • Evaluating Journal Quality A guide to the tools and methods for evaluating the quality of scholarly journals. Intended for authors, editors and reviewers.
  • Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Students & Faculty
  • Understand Citations
• Research Support Services Search Library Resources

Other Campus Resources

• UConn American English Language Institute (UCAELI): offers classes in speaking and writing for international students, usually with a fee
• The Center for Career Development: provides support for developing professional materials, including CVs and cover letters
• Grant Writing Resources from the Office of the Vice President for Research
• Graduate Student Wellness from Student Health Services

Websites

• Explorations of Style: A Blog About Academic Writing
• The Academic Phrasebank
• Purdue Owl Writing Exercises:
  • • Grammar exercises
    • Sentence structure
    • Sentence style
    • English second language (ESL) exercises

Citation Assistance

• Citation Guides
  • APA Style
  • Chicago Style
  • MLA Style
• Managers
  • RefWorks 
  • Zotero
    • UConn Zotero workshop
  • EndNote
  • Mendeley

Books

• Academic Writing for Graduate Students by John M. Swales and Christine B. Feak
• Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks: A Guide to Academic Publishing Success by Wendy Belcher
• Stylish Academic Writing by Helen Sword
• How to Write a Lot by Paul J. Silvia
• Science Research Writing for Non-Native Speakers of English by Hilary Glasman-Deal
• Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker
• Dissertations and Theses from Start to Finish: Psychology and Related Fields by John Cone and Sharon Foster
• The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E. B. White
• Writing with Clarity and Style by Robert Harris
• Democratization of Writing (multiple works) by Peter Elbow
• Brief Guides to Writing in the Disciplines: current titles include Anthropology, Biology, Engineering, Music, Nursing, Political Science, and Sociology
• The Craft of Research by Wayne C Booth, Gregory G Colomb, and Joseph M Williams (various editions available including free eBook version through the UConn Library)

Productivity Apps for Blocking Web Browsing and Goal Setting

• Freedom
• SelfControl
• StayFocusd
• Momentum
• GoalsOnTrack

Previous Workshops and Presentations

• High Impact Strategies for Writing: A Workshop, Presented by Dr. Dimitar Angelov, Coventry University (UK), April 4th, 2017
  • Powerpoint Slides
  • Handout: Excerpts from Literature Reviews
  • Handout: Trajectories of Ideas and Stance-Taking in Literature Reviews
  • Handout: Nominalizations