English-Technical Writing, MS

Apply to the Graduate School Online
Visit this website: http://www.usu.edu/gradsch/

If you have questions about the process, contact the School of Graduate Studies at (435) 797-1189 or gradsch@cc.usu.edu.

Application Deadlines
Applications are reviewed twice a year. If you want to start the program in summer or fall semester, your completed application packet must be in our hands by March 1. If you want to be considered for a spring semester start, we must have your application by November 1.

Graduate School Requirements

You will need to send the following materials to the School of Graduate Studies:

• A completed application form (submitted online)
• A $55 application fee
• All official undergraduate transcripts, showing GPA (the minimum requirement is 3.00 on a 4.00 scale for the last 60 credits taken)
• Three letters of recommendation (two of which must be from former teachers if you have been enrolled in school during the last five years)
• Test scores in ONE of these three tests taken in the last 5 years: GRE, MAT, or GMAT. If applicants choose the GRE, scores must be submitted in all three sections of the General test (Verbal, Quantitative, and Analytical) and must be at or above the 40th percentile in the Verbal section and either the Quantitative or the Analytical section). The GRE Subject test is not required. If applicants take the MAT or the GMAT, their score must also be at or above the 40th percentile.
• International applicants from non-English-speaking countries must also take the following two tests:
  • Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), scoring at least 550
  • Test of Written English (TWE), scoring at least 5

The School of Graduate Studies keeps the application fee, reviews the other items, and passes them on to the English Department for evaluation.

English Department Requirements

While you are assembling the materials listed above to send to the School of Graduate Studies, you also need to gather and send the following items directly to Dr. Keith Grant-Davie, Director of Graduate Studies in English, English Department, Utah State University, 3200 Old Main Hill, Logan, UT 84322-3200:

• A letter of intent, explaining your career goals, why you want to enter the program, and why you believe you are ready to work in an online instructional environment
• Your current resume
• Two writing samples demonstrating your ability or potential as a professional communicator. Write a half-page introduction to each writing sample, explaining the context (your role as the writer, your audience, your purpose, the constraints you were working within, etc.). If you are unable to supply a sample of professional or technical writing, please explain why not.