Your ability to write effectively may be critical to your success as a graduate student. Seek good writers to review your writing and help you improve it. Look for resources to help you improve your writing. You should strive to publish results of your research in peer-reviewed journals, agency publications, or presentations at professional meetings. It is important for you to develop your public speaking and written communication skills through presentations.
Meetings also provide opportunities to meet potential future employers.
One way to prepare a thesis is to write separate chapters for each topic covered in your research. Thesis chapters can then be submitted as separate manuscripts for publication. Review with your advisor the process for submitting manuscripts to an editor. Also, to prevent misunderstandings, authorship should be discussed with your advisor early in your program. Typically, the student is the first author and the advisor is the co-author.