Graduate students face a fundamental change in identity when transitioning from undergraduate writers to graduate writers. In their new role as graduate writers and researchers, they must move from consuming knowledge to producing knowledge through their writing. Often, they must learn new genres of writing, new disciplinary conventions, and new rhetorical models. For non-native English speaker...

[In the course in Clinical Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, a class composed of graduate and undergraduate students in the School of Education, the students are required to observe and make note of the examination of children brought before the class for that purpose. In the final examination of this class at the end of the first term of the present year the class was required to o...

The proliferation of online graduate programs, and more recently, higher education institutions’ moves to interactions due the COVID-19 crisis, have led student mentoring increasingly occurring online. Challenges, strategies, outcomes associated with students are primary importance for individuals within a dyad universities offering or blended education. nature an format presents unique challen...

The purpose of this study was to explore the differences in perceived stress and coping styles among non-traditional graduate students in both on-campus and distance-learning programs. The study employed a quantitative causal-comparative design that involved collecting survey data. The sample consisted of 36 non-traditional graduate students who enrolled in distance learning classes along with ...

The number of white males of college age, who have been the dominant participants in the fields of science and engineering, is predicted to drop significantly in the future. Rapid increases in the participation of women offer some hope of filling anticipated vacancies in the ranks of scientifically trained personnel, although this rapid growth has reached a plateau in many fields. Most studies ...

This collection of papers on women’s experiences as graduate students in geography seeks to contribute to the dialogue about women’s lives in the academy from the specific perspective of graduate students. Collectively, the contributors raise questions related to disciplinary equity, fieldwork, child care responsibilities – among others – and reflect on how feminism informs their engagement wit...

Graduate students have been shafted as far as living areas are concerned since the construction of the new campus. Gradually, all else has moved uptown or further downtown to Draper, including graduate-level courses. Yet all of the on-campus graduate housing remains downtown, in Brubacher and Pierce halls. Grad students should be given a choice of where to live, and now that Indian is nearly fi...

Connor et al. (2008) mention “specifying textual requirements of genres” (p.12) as one of the reasons which have motivated researchers in the analysis of writing. Members of each genre should be able to produce and retrieve these textual requirements appropriately to be considered communicatively proficient. One of the textual requirements of genres is regularities of specific forms and content...

BACKGROUND Dentistry in the UK has a number of new graduate-entry programmes. The aim of the study was to explore the motivation, career expectations and experiences of final year students who chose to pursue a dental career through the graduate entry programme route in one institution; and to explore if, and how, their intended career expectations and aspirations were informed by this choice. ...