On-campus Resources
- The Centre for International Experience (CIE) serves international students coming to U of T and domestic students looking to go abroad.
- The U of T Library provides answers to common research questions (including using RefWorks, setting up my alerts, using article databases, finding theses, accessing resources from home, etc.)
- The Career Centre offers a comprehensive, personalized range of services to support and empower participants in making informed decisions about their career and employment goals.
- The Health and Wellness Centre offers students short-term individual counselling/psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural therapy, group therapy, workshops, and psychiatric medication services.
- The Centre for Learning Strategy Support offers a variety of services and supports specifically for graduate students.
Writing Centres in the Professional Faculties
- Architecture Writing Program
- Engineering Communication Program
- Health Sciences Writing Centre
- OISE Student Success Centre
Writing Centres across University of Toronto Campuses
- U of T Scarborough campus: The Writing Centre, Centre for Teaching and Learning
- U of T Mississauga campus: The Robert Gillespie Academic Skills Centre
Citation Formats
- APA Style, APA Online
- MLA Style
- The Chicago Manual of Style Online
- IEEE Editorial Style Manual
- Standard Documentation Formats, Writing at U of T
- Citation and Style Guides, Concordia University Libraries
- Research and Citation, OWL at Purdue
- Citing Your Sources, University of Wisconsin–Madison Writing Centre
ESL Support
- Academic Phrasebank, University of Manchester
- English as a Second Language Resources, OWL at Purdue
- Using English for Academic Purposes: A Guide for Students in Higher Education
- Using English
- Learning English, BBC
Note: If you are not a registered graduate student at U of T, you are not eligible to take courses at GCAC. Instead you may wish to look at the course offerings at U of T’s School of Continuing Studies or the Toronto District School Board Continuing Education.
Essay and Thesis Writing
- Writing an Analytical Essay
- Writing Research Essays
- Graduate Supervision Guidelines, School of Graduate Studies, U of T
- Demystifying the Dissertation Column, Peg Boyle Single, Academic Writing Coach
- Writing and Presenting Your Thesis or Dissertation, S. Joseph Levine, Michigan State University
- Thesis by Publication, Shannon Mason and Margaret Merga
Grammar
- Revising, Writing at U of T
- HyperGrammar 2, University of Ottawa
- Grammar, OWL at Purdue
- Grammar for Academic Writing, University of Edinburgh
- The Nature of Writing, Concordia University of Edmonton
- Choosing Appropriate Articles
Online Guides to Academic Writing
- Writing at U of T
- Online Writing Lab, Purdue University
- Academic Phrasebank, University of Manchester
- The Writer’s Handbook, the Writing Centre at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Write Online
- Wordiness List, Kim Blank, University of Victoria
- Using Visuals, Rebecca A. Pinkus
Oral Presentation Skills
- Designing Effective PowerPoint Presentations
- How to Win at Academic Presentations, Sarah Knowles, LSE Impact Blog
- Presentation Tips, Garr Reynolds
- Presentation Strategies
- Presentation Resources, Think Outside the Slide, Dave Paradi
- English Language Speech Assistant (ELSA)
Plagiarism
- Plagiarism: Fast Facts
- How Not to Plagiarize, Writing at U of T
- Avoiding Plagiarism, OWL at Purdue
- Plagiarism, Indiana University Writing Tutorial Services
- Academic Integrity Booklet, Princeton University
- Intellectual Property Guidelines for Graduate Students and Supervisors, School of Graduate Studies, U of T
Poster Presentations
- Design of Scientific Posters, Michael Alley, Penn State University
- Advice on Designing Scientific Posters, Colin Purrington, Swarthmore College
- Poster Presentation Guidelines, Varinder K. Randhawa and Philip J. Bilan
- Creating Effective Poster Presentations, George R. Hess, Kathryn W. Tosney, and Leon H. Liegel
- Designing a Scientific Conference Poster
Proposal Writing
- Academic Proposals in Graduate School, Writing at U of T
- Grant Proposals, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center
- Writing Academic Proposals, OWL at Purdue
- A Funding Adviser’s Guide to Writing a Great Grant Application, Nature
Publishing
- Getting Published, Gerald Jackson
- Manuscript Works, Laura Portwood-Stacer
- Publishing Advice for Graduate Students (in the Humanities and Social Sciences), Thom Brooks
- The Scholarly Kitchen: What’s Hot and Cooking in Scholarly Publishing
- Open Access Overview, Peter Suber
- Directory of Open Access Journals
Scientific Writing
- Craft of Scientific Writing, Michael Alley, Penn State
- The Science of Scientific Writing, George D. Gopen and Judith A. Swan
- Scientific Writing Resource, Duke University
- How to Write a First-Class Paper, Nature
- Establish Novelty with Four Rhetorical Moves
- IMRD Cheat Sheet
- Clinical Chemistry Guide to Scientific Writing
- Writing a Research Statement
- Writing the Revise and Resubmit Letter
- Writing Laboratory Reports
- Writing in Mathematics
- Writing in the Sciences
The Writing Process
Getting Started
- Finding Your Topic
- Four Steps to Narrow Your Research Topic
- Mapping Your Research Ideas
- Understanding Your Assignment Checklist
Planning and Prewriting
- Introduction to the Academic Writing Process
- The Prewriting Stage
- Prewriting and Brainstorming Strategies
- How to Brainstorm
- Developing an Outline
- Developing an Outline 2
- General Structure
- Constructing a Logical Argument
Drafting
Writing and Revising
- Creating Concise Sentences
- Making Complex Writing Intelligible with the Known-New Contract
- Lexical Bundles for Establishing Novelty
- Subject Verb Separation
- Reverse Outlining
Working with Sources
- Active Reading and Notetaking Skills for Research
- How to Synthesize
- Literature Reviews
- Literature Review Examples, CWU Libraries
- Notetaking from Research Reading
- Notetaking for Synthesis
- Notetaking Instructions Worksheet
- Using Quotations
- Quotation, Paraphrase and Summary
- Paraphrase and Summary 2
- Topic Sentences: BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front)
- Using Source Material for your Purposes
- Understanding and Avoiding Plagiarism: From Passage to Paraphrase
- Annotated Bibliographies
- Writing an Annotated Bibliography
- Writing an Annotated Bibliography (Video)
- Writing a Literature Review, University of Adelaide
Blogs for Graduate Writers
- Explorations of Style
- Doctoral Writing SIG
- Writing for Research
- Patter
- Research Degree Insiders
- Scientist Sees Squirrel
- The Thesis Whisperer