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The Writing Center: For Online doctoral students

 

Writing Support for Online Campus Dissertation Students: Timeline and Services 

 

Your first two terms at Adler: Start using Adler’s Writing Center resources. 

  • Adler writing consultants will work with you collaboratively, one-on-one, to address any writing issues and help you identify and correct problematic patterns in your writing.  

  • Grammarly Premium is free for Adler students and will help you catch grammar, spelling and word choice issues as you write. 

  • Brainfuse provides live writing help 24x7.  It’s great for last-minute help on short assignments. 

When you start writing your dissertation: Make an appointment with an Adler writing consultant. 

  • You can meet with a writing consultant as often as needed, at any point in the process, at no cost.  

  • We recommend that you meet with a writing consultant early in the process – even as early as crafting your prospectus or Chapter 1. 

  • You should have met with a consultant at least once before you complete your proposal (chapters 1-3), and if you need help with the conceptual aspects of writing a dissertation—organization, content development, source integration—have your first meeting when you’re working on your first chapter. 

  • A one-hour appointment to review your work with the consultant gets faster results than sending in your work for review, which can take 7-10 days per chapter. 

Keep using Grammarly

  • Continue to use Grammarly to check grammatical issues throughout the process, specifically after you’ve completed a chapter draft or a length section of a chapter.  

Will the writing consultant correct my writing and send me a clean document I can submit? 

  • No, though a copy editor will. If you want all errors found and corrected for you, then you may choose to hire a copy editor. Adler provides referrals to several editors.  This is a service that students pay for themselves. 

After you have defended your dissertation: Begin the format review process. 

  • Your advisor will let you know when you’re ready to submit your dissertation for format review, which will happen after you have effectively defended your dissertation.