Although expectations for graduate students’ writing abilities are high, their actual writing skills are often subpar (Cuthbert & Spark, 2008; Singleton-Jackson, Lumsden, & Newson, 2009), even though academic writing is considered integral to graduate education and necessary for career preparedness (e.g., Mullen, 2006; Stevens, 2005). Today’s scholars in any field must be prepared to communicat...

The new draft law, which no longer defers all graduate students, has caused a 40 per cent drop In applications to graduate school at MSU» according to Milton E . Muelder, Dean of Advanced Graduate Studies, "Students have held off applying to graduate school until they find out how graduate students are going to be affect­ ed by the draft," he said. Muelder said the uncertainty caused by the new...

The present study investigated the relationship between personality traits and multiple intelligences, and learners’ reading proficiency. To this end, 384 graduate EFL students participated in the present study. Two questionnaires, namely the NEO personality inventory-revised, and McKenzie’s (1999) MI inventory as well as a sample TOFEL reading comprehension test were used to collect the data. ...

this paper presents the first part of a larger study on the issue of graduate employability in malaysia as construed in public discourse in english, a language of power in malaysia. the term employability itself has many definitions depending on the requirements of government and industry, and in the case of malaysia, the english-language ability of graduates is inseparable from graduate employ...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to assess the prevalence and factors associated with use psychoactive drugs amongst medical undergraduate postgraduate students. Study Design: A cross-sectional conducted using a self-administered questionnaire obtain information on consumption patterns substances. Place Duration: carried out at Department Psychiatry, Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar, P...

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program supported by the National Science Foundation is designed to provide summer academic experiences for undergraduate students through participation in research. Although students are paired with faculty mentors to work on a research project, many times graduate students are highly involved in the mentoring process. In this paper, we evaluat...