Resources for Specific Types of Academic & Professional Writing

Personal statements (graduate school, med school, fellowships):

• This guide to beginning your personal statement was written for students in Public Health but may be helpful for anyone applying to graduate school.

Research proposals:

• NUWrite offers a number of documents to help you write proposals.

• This guide, developed for the Science Research Workshops, offers practical advice on organization, sentence structure, and diction.

• You can find annotated sample student proposals here.

CVs and resumes:

• The NU Career Center’s online resources

Coming soon: Argumentative essays, abstracts, grant applications, teaching statements, job letters, multimedia