Advanced Writing for Graduate Students
This writing course is designed for graduate students who have made significant progress in their degree programs and are thinking about larger, ongoing writing projects: a prospectus, a conference paper, or an article for publication. The course does not offer support for creative writing (e.g., fiction, poetry, screenplays, creative nonfiction).
Class activities engage students and their projects in a range of ways designed to create a supportive community of writers and promote steady progress. Activities may include discussions of effective academic writing and the demands of writing in graduate school; attention to specific writing strategies and concepts, such as purpose, audience, exigency, argument, research design, style, coherence, genre, and sustainable writing processes; “write-together” sessions; peer review and feedback; and one-to-one conferences with the instructor.
Turning a dissertation chapter into a conference or article publication is acceptable work for Writing 630, as is writing for a conference or other publication that you also intend to turn into part of a dissertation chapter later. If you are looking for a class supporting the development of a dissertation chapter, specifically, consider enrolling in Writing 631: Dissertation Writing.
- Classes will be held in-person
- Tuesdays 11:00am-12:00pm (section 1/ Natural/Social/Health Science) and
- Mondays 8:00am-9:00am (section 2/ Humanities).
- Permission from the Sweetland Center for Writing is required to register.
- This course is not designed to provide intensive language study for multilingual speakers.
If you are interested in enrolling in Writing 630, please submit the Interest Form below by Sunday, November 15, 2026
We use this form to match your field and writing with the appropriate section. We will notify you by November 30, 2026.
Please send all questions to Laura Schuyler (schuyler@umich.edu)
