Lauren Cerretti is the graduate writing tutor.
Please email msu.grad.tutor@gmail.com to make an appointment
Hi everyone,
I wanted to share a few events and pieces of information with you all.
On February 17th at 11am in SUB 233 there will be a Public Speaking seminar brought to you by the Division of Graduate Education. Toastmaster Tom Stenzel will be your host and offer advice and strategies dealing with public speaking. As always, there will be snacks provided but please bring your lunch if you need to. Please join us!
March 4th at 1:30pm in SUB 233 is my Graduate Writing Seminar, offered every semester. I’ll give a brief presentation about tutoring services and general writing and have a handout of writing tips available. I invite you to ask questions and bring your friends. I’ll bring snacks and you should feel free to bring your own, too.
The Grad Writing Email Tips article has been updated for those of you who don’t receive the “grad writing tip” emails from me. The article is useful even if you do receive the emails because the tips are all there, neatly packaged for your quick review.
I hope your semester is going well and I hope you’ll email me to learn more about tutoring or to set up an appointment. Email tutoring is available as well as traditional appointments. Please email me at msu.grad.tutor@gmail.com .
October is the month of many things. It’s fall (or winter, in Montana); it’s far enough in your semester that the work has hit a busy stride. As the graduate writing tutor, it is my busiest month. Not only do student appointments increase, but I am also hosting a Graduate Writing Seminar [...]
Welcome to a new semester. During your graduate studies at MSU, I hope that you take advantage of all the services the university offers. Writing assistance is one of the services offered through the Division of Graduate Education. It is important to be a clear, efficient, effective writer, both during school and after, in your [...]
During the summer months, it’s hard to get motivated to write or work on projects. Often we, as writers, students, and professionals, want to take the summer off. We think that there is so much time between now and the new semester or deadline. What we all know deep-down, however, is that [...]
I’ve been sending out grad writing email tips and thought I’d post them to the site for those of you not on the grad student listserv.
Commas have been coming up a lot in my tutoring sessions lately, so I thought I’d provide a link to a helpful website. The comma is one of the more confusing pieces of punctuation, but there are really a few main uses of it.
One use is list-making, which a lot of us do in [...]
This article may not be perfect advice, depending on your discipline, but for my English Masters thesis, these strategies certainly worked. Some of the advice is also about surviving the writing process. I suggest reading it through and then taking what you like and changing any methods to suit your program or personal organizational style. [...]
Latin abbreviations like i.e. and e.g. are often used wrongly and too often. Here’s some advice on dealing with these and other “handy” abbreviations.
The PowerPoint presentation from the tutor’s graduate student seminar on March 18 is available below.
Approaches to Writing
Or, you can watch it here.
Remembering that writing is a process can help you find your way if you get lost in the middle of a long process. This article outlines the writing process and provides some practical advice for writers walking this path.