Visit our Rackham-Sweetland Workshops on Writing page to register for the following workshops.
How Do You Conceptualize Your Time in Graduate School?: From the Practical to the Philosophical
Presented by Cat Cassel
September 5, 11am-12pm • North Quad, Space 2435
Time management and productivity may not seem like an exciting topic, but harnessing concrete tactics and strategies for how to maintain autonomy and agency over your own schedule is a crucial skill in graduate school. You will find yourself juggling multiple, and often competing, priorities– and many of them have to do with writing… lots, and lots of writing! This 50-minute Rackham/Sweetland workshop will address time management strategies across scales (from pomodoros to physical planners to semester and year-long planning), as well as considerations regarding habits and motivation. The earlier you find what works for you, the more you can tailor your schedule to fit your life instead of the other way around!
What’s Reading Got to Do with It?: Reading to Support Writing in Graduate School
Presented by Megan Behrend
September 12, 11am-12pm • North Quad, Space 2435
What is the relationship between reading and writing for academic purposes? How can you read to support your work as a writer in your specific academic field and discipline? In this 50-minute Rackham/Sweetland workshop, you will discover answers to these questions through guided reflection on your current reading (and writing) practices, as well as a hands-on introduction to specific reading strategies that support writing. You'll also leave with additional resources and ideas for how to continue to explore and develop the reading-writing connection in your own academic work.
Who Are You Talking To?: Identifying and Responding To Your Interlocutors
Presented by April Conway
September 19, 11am-12pm • Rackham Building, East Conference Room, 4th Floor
This workshop will address how reading skills and writing conventions allow you to ethically represent others’ knowledge and support your arguments. Participants will work with peers to talk through rhetorical decisions scholars make when identifying and responding to interlocutors and set goals of how to use the workshop experience in their own graduate writing careers.
How to Make Revision Count: Revising Practices for Graduate Students
Presented by Louis Cicciarelli
September 26, 11am-12pm • Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room, 3rd Floor
The most critical phase in the writing process is also the most mysterious and least taught. Revision is especially challenging for first-year graduate writers learning to write extended academic arguments. What do academic writers do when they revise their work? How does an early draft become a polished, publishable article? This workshop will demystify the role of revision in academic writing – to advance and refine our good ideas! – and provide strategies to help you build quality revision into your writing practice. You will expand your revising practices and elevate your writing skills for graduate school.
