Using the writing service at Keiser University

1. How to use the Graduate Online
Writing Studio (GROWS).
Presenter
Shirley Hicks, PhD
Student: Keiser University
Professor: Dr. Gatewood

2. Agenda
 Introduction of Presenter
 The agenda
 Purpose of this presentation
 Learning Objectives and Outcomes for Participants
 Introduction to the Graduate Online Writing Studio
 What GROWS Do
 What GROWS Don’t Do
 Writing Consultation Request Form
 Requesting a Writing Consultation
 How Often You Can Use The Service and What Type of Help to
Request
 Wrap-Up
 Polling
 Questions and Answers

3. Purpose of Presentation

4. Learning Objectives and
Outcomes for Participants
 The objective is for the students to understand what
GROWS resource does, so that they can utilize this writing
resource studio when needed.

5. Introduction to the Graduate
Online Writing Studio
 Friendly and experienced writing consultants.
 Offers free writing consultations to help you hone your
writing, reading, critical thinking, researching, and publishing
skills.
 The writing studio is open seven days per week.

6. What GROWS Do
 Writing consultants collaborate with you to improve your
work and help you grow as a scholarly writer.
 Writing consultants can advise you about your
researching process and sometimes suggest alternative
lines of inquiry or approaches to a topic.

7. What Writing Consultants Do
 Writing consultants can provide guidance for planning,
organization, headings, grammar, sentence structure, or
other concerns your instructor may have mentioned.
 They provide APA Manual guidance.
 They respond to your writing-related concerns and
provide support.

8. What Writing Consultants Don’t Do
 They do not edit papers.
 They do not address every strength and
weakness in your work.
 They do not tell you what they think your grade
should be on an assignment or discuss grades
after you receive them.
 They do not engage in disparaging discussions
about a professor or assignment.

9. Writing Consultation Request
Form
This form provides information such as the assignment details and
you would like the consultant to help you so that your needs can
be served.
Graduate Online Writing Studio
WRITING CONSULTATION REQUEST FORM
Your Full Name
Your Phone Number
Select Your Program
MBA, DBA, DHsc, MSOT,
MACC, PSY, MHC, MCJ,
MHS, NUTR, IDT, MSE,
EDL, CIL, MSN-FNP, MSN-
DNP, EDL, or MACC.
Professor’s Full Name
Assignment Instructions Please copy and paste the assignment directions here to help us ensure you’ve
satisfied them.
Date and Time You Need
the Assignment Returned
For example: March 10 by 9:00 p.m. EST
How Can We Help You?
Please be specific.
Using your Keiser University email account, send this completed form with your
assignment (in MS Word, not Sharepoint) to writingstudio@keiseruniversity.edu
Rev. 12/01/17

10. Requesting a Writing
Consultation
 To request a written consultation:
 In Keiser Blackboard, click on Student Resources, under
“Main Menu” click on Writing & Library, then click on
Graduate Online Writing Studio.
 Download the Consultation Request Form.
 E-mail the completed form along with your assignment
from your Keiser University e-mail account to
writingstudio@keiseruniversity.edu.
 In most cases, you will receive your paper back within 24
hours depending on the volume of assignments in the
queue .
 Your assignment will be returned with comments via e-mail.

11. How Often You Can Use The
Service and What Type of Help
to Request
Only one document will be reviewed in any given week.
Questions to Ask:
 Are my sources appropriately scholarly?
 Have I supported my arguments well?
 Did I address all parts of the topic assigned?
 Is each of my paragraphs about one clear main
idea?
 Are the sections of my paper organized in such a
way that I build support for my points as the paper
progresses?

12. What Graduate Student Can
Expect From Using the
GROWS
 To improve your writing, reading, researching and
critical thinking,
 To be supported yet challenged,
 To feel glad you use our services, and
 To want to return for more consultations. We are
committed to doing everything we can to help
ensure you have a successful and enjoyable
experience at Keiser University.

13. Wrap-Up
The Graduate Online Writing Studio is not an editing service.
You, as graduate students are expected to take the feedback
provided by the writing consultant, practice applying it on
other assignments, and review the professors’ feedback prior
to returning to identify new areas in need of improvement or
to ask for additional guidance on previous feedback.
For your long-term growth as a scholarly writer, you must
participate in that process by reflecting on your strengths and
weaknesses and the ways in which you’ve grown over the
course of an academic term.
Embrace additional ways to hone the craft to strengthen your
weaknesses.
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14.  On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the
webinar overall?
 What can we do to make the webinar even
better?
 Do you feel as though the webinar had a
cohesive message?
 Did you learn information that will help you
with your studies?

15. Questions and Answers
Are the any questions?

16. References
KeiserWrites.(n.d.).GraduateOnlineWritingStudio.Retrievedfrom
https://www.keiseruniversity.edu/writing-studio/