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Mastering Academic Writing: Essential Resources for Texas Tech Graduate Students

This guide provides Texas Tech graduate students with essential resources for improving their writing skills. It includes information on dissertation and thesis requirements, useful online grammar tools, and identifies common errors prevalent among ESL students. Explore Texas Tech's online resources, deadlines, style guides, and workshops designed to enhance your academic writing. Additionally, utilize grammar-checking tools and practical tips to avoid weaknesses such as redundancy and tense inconsistency, ensuring your work meets high academic standards.

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Mastering Academic Writing: Essential Resources for Texas Tech Graduate Students

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  1. Improving Your Writing1. Texas Tech Dissertation and Thesis Requirements and Aid2. Helpful Online Grammar Resources and Practice 3. Common Errors and Weaknesses of ESL Graduate Students

  2. Online Resources Texas Tech Thesis and Dissertations section on the Graduate School Website • Texas Tech deadlines and requirements • Style Guides (Format your Document) • Thesis on Demand • News about Dissertation Boot Camps, Thesis-Dissertation Formatting Workshops (Format your Document)

  3. Online Resources Continued • www.grammarbook.com • Grammar Tests • www.grammarly.com • Insert text into Grammar checker • Abuse 7 day free trial? • www.dianahacker.co/rules • www.owl.english.purdue.edu • Grammar examples • Techniques for revising, analyzing tone

  4. Common Grammar Errors • Tense Consistency • Scientists have predicted the moon will explode in the near future. (Incorrect) • Scientists predict that the moon will explode in the near future. (Correct) • Comma Use • Article Use • Singular Plural Agreement • Neither the researcher from Texas Tech nor the researcher from Idaho State address the issue. • Neither the researcher form Texas Tech nor the researcher from Idaho State addresses the issue.

  5. Common Weaknesses • Redundancy • The temporal lobe (that exists) (in the brain) • We see that oxygen is a (basic) essential for all life forms. • Africa is rich (and wealthy) in natural resources. • Over-organizing • Connotative Implications • Dr. Z is quite relentless in critiquing my dissertation proposal. (Dr. Z is mean.)

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