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Graduate Writing: Texts at the UWC
The UWC Graduate Library has a number of useful texts that address the many aspects of graduate writing. Select from the categories below to view summaries of some of the books we have available for reference.
 

Thesis and Dissertation Guides

General Graduate Writing

Writing in the Content Fields CVs and Resumes
   
Thesis and Dissertation Guides
 
The Clockwork Muse: A Practical Guide to Writing Theses, Dissertations, and Books by Eviatar Zerubavel. Cambridge: Harvard U P, 1999.
How to Complete and Survive a Doctoral Dissertation by David Sternberg. New York: St. Martin's, 1981.
How to Write a Thesis by Harry Teitelbaum. New York: MacMillan, 1998.
Writing Your Dissertation in Fifteen Minutes a Day by Joan Bolker. New York: Holt, 1998.
Writing the Winning Dissertation by Allan A Glatthorn. Thousand Oaks: Corwin, 1998.
 
Writing in the Content Fields
 
Enjoy Writing Your Science Thesis or Dissertation! by Daniel Holtom and Elizabeth Fisher. London: Imperial College P, 1999.
Writing in the Disciplines, 3rd ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt, 1995.

 
General Graduate Writing
Academic Writing for Graduate Students: A Course for Non-Native Speakers of English by John W. Swales and Christine B. Feak. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1994.
The African American's Guide to Surviving Graduate School by Alicia Isaac. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1998.
Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student's Guide to Earning a Master's or a Ph.D. by Robert L. Peters. New York: Noonday, 1997.
 
CVs and Resumes
The Resume Handbook by Arthur D. Rosenberg and David Hizer. Holbrook, MA: Adams, 1996.