Katie Shives is a PhD candidate in Microbiology at the University of Colorado. Her writing can be found on her portfolio site, kdshives.com. Anyone pursuing a graduate degree has experienced the ...

Research sometimes just means finding out information about a topic. However, research in an academic context refers to a more rigorous process that, when undertaken effectively, will lead to new ...

You’ve at long last completed a few of your upper-level alumni courses, and you’re beginning to design your dissertation at the same time. You might be reasoning that composing this paper will be a ...

What makes a good introduction for a dissertation? Graduate students practice critiquing one another’s thesis chapters, but they rarely read the introductions — usually because those are written to ...

Doctoral theses at the Faculty of Humanities have traditionally been monographs, but they may also be compilations of several peer-reviewed scholarly publications and manuscripts accepted for ...