I am a graduate research assistant at the Graduate School at Texas Tech University, an aspiring Teir-1 university. In the Spring of this year, I was asked to teach a series of writing workshops, and over the interim session in May, I taught an onsite “Thesis and Dissertation Boot Camp.” The workshops were actually a seminar series. I lectured over topics such as grammar and punctuation, what is a style guide and how to use it, and other similar topics. It was conceived as a refresher or review for graduate students who haven’t had a lot of writing instruction at… Read more »