Grad students complain about a lot of things, but I’ve literally never heard one complain about having to write good papers. They could complain, however, that

Grad students complain about a lot of things, but I’ve literally never heard one complain about having to write good papers. They could complain, however, that PhD training contains shockingly little on how to write effectively, given the skill’s importance to most post-PhD jobs. To make matters worse, any training is often front-loaded at the beginning of a program so those skills are atrophied by the time PhD candidates have their own data to write up. If I am ever in charge of a graduate program, I’m putting everyone through a 10 week expository writing class around year 3.5-4. I took one in grade 12 and that public high school class literally beat most Ivy League grad seminars for (academic) career prep.