news from the Grad School

 GRD 699: DISSERTATION 

The Graduate School is offering GRD 699 (Dissertation) once again for Fall 2022 and the first class will be held on Friday, September 9th.  This course is available to all ABD doctoral students (in place of their departmental 699). Students should discuss their interest in GRD 699 with their faculty adviser and if approved, work with their department staff to be enrolled. 

This one-credit independent study course, taught by Robert Danberg of the Writing Initiative, is designed to assist graduate students in two ways: identify a project goal for the course period and become familiar with writing strategies and habits that have helped academic writers.  The principles explored adapt across disciplines and the course has been taken successfully by writers in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Students who take the course are often at different stages -- proposal, prospectus, research, data analysis, drafting chapters, revising chapters, etc.

Graduate School Academic Consultants

The Graduate Academic Writing Consultants are here to help any Binghamton graduate student with writing a paper, a conference presentation, a thesis, a dissertation chapter, or any academic writing task. They can help with developing ideas, organizing paragraphs or sections and developing transitions between them, structuring an argument, learning documentation standards, proper citation, proof-reading and copy edits, and grammar. (The consultants will not write content.)

For more information or to schedule a meeting: https://www.binghamton.edu/grad-school/resources/writing-help.html