While some attributes of academic writing remain constant across disciplines, others vary to meet standards and expectations of specific fields. The short guides below offer tips for writing within specific academic disciplines.
The Emory Writing Center offers 45-minute individual conferences to Emory College and Laney Graduate School students. The Emory Writing Center aims to: foster the development of writers of all levels, abilities, and disciplines;support reflection and research about Writing, tutoring and teaching; model a multiliteracies pedagogy that draws on the strengths of students
working across multiple languages, dialects, and modes.
The Online Writing Lab (OWL) at Purdue University houses Writing resources and instructional material, and we provide these as a free service of the Writing Lab at Purdue. Students, members of the community, and users worldwide will find information to assist with many Writing projects.
Specialized for the Laney Graduate School, schedule a collaborative writing consultation personalized for your writing project. All types of writing are welcome, including seminar papers, dissertation chapters, applications for grants or fellowships, articles, and conference papers.
The English Language Support Program (ELSP) strives to provide high quality language instruction to students whose first language is other than English and to encourage on-going and long term improvement of speaking and writing skills. Tailored to the needs of PhD and Master's students enrolled in the Laney Graduate School, as well as PostDocs and full-time research employees
Free-English as a Second Language (ESL) classes provide basic through advanced instruction in the speaking, reading, writing, grammar and syntax of English for speakers of other languages. Click here to see a list of ESL classes at the library.