Graduate School Expects You to Write Like a Scholar. But Who Taught You How?

Improve your academic writing skills.

You have earned your place in graduate school. Now you're expected to write sophisticated academic papers, synthesize research, develop scholarly arguments, and respond to faculty feedback—sometimes without clear instruction on how to accomplish those tasks.

You don't need another confusing set of writing rules. You need practical instruction that you can apply immediately.

"Graduate Writing Skills Essentials" helps master's and doctoral students develop the foundational writing skills needed to communicate research with confidence, clarity, and scholarly precision.

Through four self-paced modules, you'll learn to:
  • Understand graduate-level writing expectations and develop stronger academic arguments.
  • Improve academic tone, sentence clarity, word choice, and precision.
  • Apply the MEAL Plan to organize evidence, analyze findings, and strengthen scholarly paragraphs.
  • Interpret faculty feedback, correct common writing problems, and improve your academic papers.
Grad Writing Accelerator

What You Get

As an individual (single user) taking this class for personal or professional development, you have full access to class materials for your specified time of enrollment (no expiration for lifetime access). You must complete all lessons and surveys to receive your certificate. Learn at your own pace. The instructor retains all copyright ownership for all of the materials presented in this course. Any resources not directly written by the instructor are duly noted and properly cited. Students are expected to abide by fair use laws when printing course materials. No part of this course may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the author.

  • Weekly Study Time: 2-4 hours
    Estimated Course Completion: 4 weeks
    Course Hours: 16

  • Video Lessons
    Lecture Slides
    Quizzes
    PDF Handouts

  • Duration: Lifetime Access
    Certificate of Completion

Course Curriculum

  1. Class Orientation

  2. Module 1: From Student to Scholar

  3. Module 2: Mastering Scholarly Style and Tone

  4. Module 3: Building Scholarly Paragraphs Using the MEAL Plan

  5. Module 4: Revising and Strengthening Graduate Writing

  6. Before You Finish

About this course

  • $147.00
  • 33 lessons

Instructor(s)

(Dr.) Ashan R. Hampton

Director/Founder

Ashan R. Hampton, founder of Onyx Online Education, LLC--Write Well University™--is an experienced State Distance Learning Coordinator for Adult Education and higher education professional. Ashan proudly cherishes the distinction of being the first Black female graduate of the Donaghey Scholars Program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, under the direction of Dr. C. Earl Ramsey, Emeritus. As of December 2025, Ashan has completed all course work for her Doctor of Education (Ed.D) in Adult Education Administration through Capella University with a 4.0 GPA. She is also a certified Google AI Professional. Outside of academics, Ashan worked for short stints as a technical writer, website designer, digital content coordinator, proofreader, and legal editor. She is also a published author with multiple books on a variety of writing topics, now available on Amazon, Lulu, and other popular booksellers. All book titles and ordering information are posted on this website under "Books" at: www.writewelluniversity.com/books.

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