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COM 600 Week 1.doc (1)    Academic Success  COM/600  Academic Success  There are many different tactics to employ to ensure academic success during graduate studies.  Graduate-level students need to be cognizant of the expectancies and characteristics of graduate-level writing.  These students must also understand the different elements of written communication.  Lastly, graduate students face many different obstacles related to their writing and communications, if they do not employ appropriate coping mechanisms for stress and good time management skills, they may not become a graduating member of a graduate program.  Characteristics of Graduate Writing  Graduate-level writing should be clear, concise, and detail oriented, following a very structured format.  At this writing level, authors are employing more research to prove or support an idea they have about a certain topic, ensuring they provide credit to any original authors or research they provide during this process.  The American Psychological Foundation (APA) has set forth guidelines to ensure authors are meeting the standards of appropriate graduate-level writing (Purdue University, 2018); if a student follows these guidelines among many others, they are looking toward a successful academic career.  How Graduate Writing Differs  The University of Maryland (2018) explains the differences between undergraduate and graduate-level writing as the difference between student and scholar.  At the undergraduate-level of writing, authors mostly