Now that the new CGC website is up and running, the CGC Board plans to actively maintain and oversee updates for our repository of resources and references. Marilyn Gray of UCLA has graciously offered to oversee this effort. 

As you hopefully have seen by now, we have two major repositories of resources on the website to support you in your work:

• a document library (below left) of syllabi, assignments, activities, workshop materials, and needs assessments. (Please continue to help us grow this library!); and
• the CGC Bibliography on Graduate Communication (below right) of articles, books and book chapters, and links to pedagogical materials. The bibliography resides on Zotero, a free citation manager that allows for easy  entry, tagging, and navigation. From 2018 to 2020, a task force led by Talinn Phillips compiled, categorized, and annotated the bibliography, and in early 2020, Lindsey Ives, with help from Kayla Taylor entered them in Zotero.

The Bibliography has not been substantively or systematically updated in several years, and we would greatly appreciate your help now in doing so by suggesting scholarly references related to graduate communication after 2018. In addition to relevant publications, you may also suggest useful online resources such as videos and webpages.  

While resources may be submitted on an ongoing basis in future, we would like to conduct an initial push for missing citations and resources by Friday, January 30, 2026, so we invite you to submit references by that date if at all possible. 

You may review the current Zotero database here: https://www.zotero.org/groups/2434359/consortium_on_graduate_communication/library.  If you’re familiar with Zotero and have time to check whether your reference is already there, great, but please also feel free to submit any reference without checking because there’s no harm in suggesting something that’s already there. 

You can submit your suggested references in one of three ways:

1. For individual references, use the handy submission form on the website: https://gradconsortium.org/bibliographic-resource-submission-form/. The form is fairly self-explanatory, and only the fields with the red asterisks are required, but the more information you provide, the easier you make Marilyn’s life.

If you have many references to share:

2. If they’re in a Zotero folder(s), it would be great if you could create a group folder in Zotero, copy (drag) all the references into it (dragging will duplicate them and not remove them from the original folder), and share it with Marilyn at dr.marilyn.gray@gmail.com. See instructions below for doing this.
3. If you have them in some other reference manager or other form, please submit a bibliography document that can be used to locate additional references. You can send that directly to her work email at mgray@saonet.ucla.edu.

Thank you in advance for supporting this initiative! We believe an updated and more complete reference database will be of great benefit to everyone.

Sincerely,

Eric Grunwald
on behalf of the CGC Board 

To set up a Zotero group folder and share it with Marilyn:

1. Go to Zotero.org, log in, and select Groups near the top of the page:

2. Click “Create a new group”:

3. Give it a name, choose Private group, and click “Create Group”:

4. Click “Members Settings” near the top:

5. At the bottom of the next screen, choose “Send more invitations”:

6. Share it with Marilyn at dr.marilyn.gray@gmail.com (different from the address above) and click “Invite Members”:

7. Go back to your Zotero database and put all the references you want to share in that folder.

NOTE: If you use the stand-alone app to manage your references, you will have to now sync your folders using the circular arrows in the upper right of the Zotero window.

(If you have multiple folders housing different topics, sharing them separately might be helpful for us!)  Marilyn will receive the invitation and check out your references (as it were).

Thank you!

Author: Eric Grunwald

Eric Grunwald is director of and lecturer in MIT’s English Language Studies (ELS) program. An instructor in ELS since 2012, he draws on a wide breadth of scholastic and vocational experiences to help students across the disciplines improve their academic and professional communication skills. As an undergraduate at Stanford University, studied math, physics, computer science, and astronomy before switching to the humanities and graduating with a degree in history. He began teaching English in Berlin, Germany, during the German Reunification, and then worked for several years in technology transfer at Stanford before obtaining his master’s in creative writing at Boston University. (See ericgrunwald.com.) After serving as managing editor at the literary journal Agni, he returned to teaching in 2007 and now teaches a variety of communication courses for bilingual MIT undergraduates and graduate students. He presents regularly at conferences in the U.S. and abroad and has received Institute grants to design an undergraduate creative writing course just for bilingual students and to design a website—writingprocess.mit.edu—to instruct students in a formal writing process. Grunwald became ELS director in July 2022 and serves on the CMS/W Writing Council. He is a member-at-large on the CGC Board and chairs the CGC Communications Committee.