The Graduate Writing Center assists graduate students in the development of academic skills necessary to successfully complete their graduate programs and prepare for future faculty and professional positions. This unit offers workshops on topics such as academic writing, grant writing, dissertation writing, editing, and preparing articles for publication, in addition to writing groups and individual consultations on these topics for graduate students.

The following quick guides are also available to assist graduate students in developing their writing skills:

Quick Guide to Writing Resources
Quick Guide to Scientific and Technical Writing
Quick Guide to Dissertation Writing
Quick Guide to Scholarly Publishing
Quick Guide to Style Manuals

To learn more, contact Sabrina Soracco, Director, Graduate Writing Center, at (510) 643-9392 or via email.

All workshops are open to UC Berkeley graduate students and postdocs in all disciplines. Preregistration is required. Wheelchair accessible. For disability-related accommodations, please call (510) 643-9392, ten days in advance of the scheduled workshop.

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Graduate Writing Center Workshops
Fall 2018 Workshops

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How to Write an Academic Grant Proposal

Friday, September 7, 2018, 1 to 3 pm, 309 Sproul Hall  | Register Online

This introductory workshop covers the basic principles of writing an academic grant proposal.

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Strategies and Skills for Mentoring: A Workshop for Graduate Students

Wednesday, September 26, 2018, 2 to 3:30 pm, 309 Sproul Hall  | Register Online

The purpose of this workshop is to assist graduate students in establishing and working within the context of mentoring relationships with faculty. It will also provide graduate students with strategies and skills that they will need in mentoring undergraduates here at Berkeley and preparing for the mentoring they will do in future careers. With Linda von Hoene (Assistant Dean for Professional Development and Director, GSI Teaching & Resource Center) and Sabrina Soracco (Director, Graduate Writing Center).

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Editing and Revising Writing Workshop

Friday, November 2, 2018, 309, 2 to 4 pm, Sproul Hall  | Register Online

In this workshop the following topics will be covered: how a professional editor works with a manuscript; how you can use the techniques of an editor to revise your own writing; and how you can diagnose and avoid common writing errors and weaknesses. The goal of this workshop is to enable workshop participants to be able to step back and use the skills of a professional editor to revise and improve their own writing.

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Writing the Dissertation: Strategies and Pitfalls

Wednesday, November 7, 2018, 3 to 4:30 pm, 309 Sproul Hall  | Register Online

This workshop will focus on the basic strategies of successfully writing a doctoral dissertation. It will cover both strategies for organizing a large research project and for writing up the results of that project.

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Scientific and Technical Writing Workshop

Thursday, November 15, 2018, 2 to 4 pm, 309 Sproul Hall  | Register Online