Writing Resources
The OWL at Purdue
The OWL at Purdue website offers grammar, mechanics, and punctuation rules as well as format and citation guidelines (with examples) for MLA, APA, and Chicago writing styles.
Ohio University Libraries
The Ohio University Libraries homepage features navigation tabs for research tools like 'The Library Search Catalog,' 'Databases A to Z,' 'Subject and Course Guides,' and 'Digital Archives' among others. It also features "Browse by Subject" and "Advanced Search" links. These are some additional ways to discover resources useful in your writing and research.
Subject Librarians by Discipline
Each discipline has a librarian who specializes in that area. Your subject librarian can help with literature reviews, acquiring materials, locating citations, and more.
Library Support for Graduate Students
Ohio University Libraries offers several valuable resources for graduate students' coursework, research, and teaching needs. Some of these resources include assistance with research, accessing materials, and writing and presenting research.
Research Skills Workshop Series
Ohio University Libraries hosts a series of instructional workshops that introduce participants to tools, developments, and information vital for advanced research literacies. The workshops are excellent resources to enhance and refresh your research skills.
Graduate Writing Tutors
Experienced graduate and professional tutors in the Writing Commons are available to help you.
Sayan Chattergee
Sayan Chatterjee has a Ph.D. in Literary History from the Department of English at Ohio University and currently serves as a Senior Lecturer of English at Mercy University in New York, and as a Professional Writing Tutor at Ohio University’s Writing Commons. He has previously taught English Composition at Ohio University. His teaching specializations include narrative, analytical, argumentative, and research writing, as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction and critical media studies. His research explores Victorian fiction, Postcolonial studies in fiction and cinema, and the globalization of capitalist modernity across the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Polina Decker, Ph.D.
Polina holds a bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature and Spanish from Yale and a PhD in Hispanic Studies from Brown. Her dissertation examined the early work of Jorge Luis Borges in a comparative framework. Bilingual in English and Russian and fluent in Spanish, she has held research positions in Latin American Studies and has taught language and literature courses at the university level. She specializes in mentoring theses and dissertations in the humanities, advising students on personal statements and job search materials, and offering feedback on articles in preparation for publication or presentation.
Farzaneh Vahabi
Farzaneh Vahabi holds a Ph.D. in Speech-Language Science from Ohio University. Her dissertation examined how verbal chunking in working memory predicts school-age children's comprehension of complex spoken sentences. She has served as adjunct faculty at both Ohio University and the University of Arkansas, teaching and mentoring students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Dr. Vahabi has extensive experience guiding graduate students and junior faculty through the dissertation process, research proposal development, and grant writing. She currently serves as Associate Director of Research (Pre-Award) at D'Youville University, where she supports faculty and graduate students in securing external funding for their research. She specializes in helping writers strengthen grant applications and research proposals, from identifying funding opportunities to sharpening the clarity and persuasiveness of a project's argument.
Bob West, Ph.D.
Bob completed his doctorate in Instructional Technology in the Patton College of Education. A retired public-school teacher, Bob has extensive experience in elementary, post-secondary, and adult education with an emphasis on implementing technology into classrooms. Bob's dissertation on Teacher Self-Efficacy used mixed methods.
Jingyi Zhu
Jingyi holds a master’s degree in English language and literature from Zhejiang Normal University, China. She is a Ph.D. candidate specializing in Multilingual language education at Ohio State University and will graduate in August 2022. Her dissertation focused on graduate-level students’ L2 academic reading experience. Jingyi has taught English at Zhejiang Normal University and taught undergraduate- and graduate-level academic writing at OSU. She has extensive experience mentoring writing in a variety of genres, such as course papers, dissertations, theses, and manuscripts in the humanities with students of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Jingyi’s research interests include academic reading and writing and arts-based research practices in education. She has published articles in professional journals including Teaching in Higher Education, The Reading Matrix, TESOL Journal, and Visual Culture & Gender.