Graduate Writing Services
Research editors at the Graduate Resource Center focus on helping graduate students grow as academic writers and scholars across disciplines. Editors support students at any stage in the writing process. Editors provide feedback on a range of work including research papers, literature reviews, dissertation chapters, grant proposals, and conference presentations. To book a writing consultation visit https://grc.mywconline.com .
Scope of Services
The services that we provide include:
- Constructive criticism for drafts as well as final products
- Help with developing revision plans
- Considerations for refining the writing process
- Support with overcoming barriers to productivity
Writing consultations are driven by your goals. We often discuss the following with writers during consultations:
- Writer's block
- Structural organization
- Academic writing conventions
- Clarity
- Research skills
- Cohesion and coherence of argumentation
- Style
- Embedding voice and authority in academic writing
Types of Writing Consultations
We offer 2 different types of consultation sessions.
Brainstorming Consultations
Students talk through approaches they are considering for starting an assignment, drafting sections of longer manuscripts, or even working through structural issues in a current draft. The consultation focuses on using dialogue to explore ideas, ask questions, and gain clarity. Brainstorming consultations are scheduled 24 hours in advance and require an assignment sheet or a short project description.
Read Ahead Consultations
Students will identify a specific challenge that they are facing in a current draft. An editor will read student work before the consultation. The consultation centers on using dialogue to provide constructive feedback, potential strategies, and resources for overcoming the challenge. Consultations are scheduled 48 hours in advance. Requirements for making the appointment include an assignment sheet or a short project description in addition to a maximum of 10 double-spaced manuscript pages or slides.
Meet Our Editor
Dr. Honor McElroy’s expertise includes adult literacy, critical literacy, and feminist approaches to literacy research in addition to qualitative and mixed methods research designs. Her research projects focus on STEM education, creative writing, literacy studies, and general education. She has extensive experience as an academic editor, education researcher, writing consultant, and English education leader. In these roles, she worked with faculty and graduate students to develop academic manuscripts, presentations, grant applications, evaluation reports, IRB materials, conference proposals, and manuscripts moving through the peer review process. She has collaborated with students, education leaders, editorial teams, faculty, grant review panels, and researchers. She is skilled in using Qualtrics for survey administration as well as Microsoft Excel, SPSS, and NVIVO for data analysis. She is also skilled in using research management tools like Zotero, Mendeley, and RefWorks. Dr. McElroy is passionate about collaborating with faculty and supporting graduate students' development as researchers and writers.