Welcome, doctoral capstone students.
If you are beginning to use our Form and Style
resources, that means that you generally have
an approved prospectus and working on your
proposal.
Congratulations on meeting this milestone.
Here is our form and Style website.
We provide resources on general capstone writing
expectations, APA style, scholarly voice,
formatting, the writing process in general,
and offer live editing Q&A.
As you probably already know, the Writing
Center has two offices.
The Office of Writing Instruction is staffed
by full-time writing instructors who are experts
at teaching academic writing.
Their goal is to help you develop your academic
writing skills throughout your coursework
and in the beginning of your doctoral program.
The Office of Academic Editing is staffed
by full-time dissertation editors who are
experts at editing students’ final doctoral
capstone documents via the form and style
review, as well as helping students prepare
and write the capstone.
That’s where we will focus today; on our
capstone writing and formatting resources
on our form and style website.
First, we would like to highlight our templates
page.
On this page, you will find the template for
your program and step in the process, as well
as resources for using the template.
Next, we’d like to mention our APA and writing
resources pages.
On the APA page, you will find resources for
Capstone APA citations, references, table
and figure formatting etc.
On the Writing tab, you will find resources
on grammar and mechanics, reading to write,
self-editing, and scholarly voice.
We would also like to draw attention to our
capstone starter kits.
Here are the kits we offer, all designed to
help students as they begin writing at different
stages of the capstone process.
Everything from preproposal—focused on the
premise and prospectus, to the postgraduation
kit, focused on helping students determine
where and what to publish after graduation.
SMRT Guides.
SMRT guides are how to, step-by-step instructions
(with screen shots) for creating and formatting
the capstone
We’d also like to highlight the capstone
writing community.
The community is indented for all students,
once they have an approved prospectus, they
can be welcomed to a community of writers
who are focusing on the capstone.
The purpose of the community is to provide
support and advice on the capstone writing
process.
On the left hand toolbar, you can see that
we provide everything from tips on getting
started to how to communicate and collaborate
on the writing process.
Finally, we’d like to remind students to
ask us questions via our live editor Office
Hours.
You can connect with an editor, via a chat
application live when office hours are online.
Please remember that these resources are available
via our form and style website and we are
around to answer questions via Office Hours
or our e-mail, editor@waldenu.edu.
