Visit our Rackham-Sweetland Workshops on Writing page to register for the following workshops.
What’s Reading Got to Do with It?: Reading to Support Writing in Graduate School
Presented by Megan Behrend
September 20, 1-2pm • North Quad, Space 2435
This workshop will address how you can read strategically to support your work as a writer in your academic field and discipline.
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 27, 12-1pm • North Quad, Space 2435
This workshop will address how reading skills and writing conventions allow you to ethically represent others’ knowledge and support your arguments.Interlocutors are those you engage with in your research and writing; they may appear (re: be valued) differently across disciplines.
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
October 4, 1-2pm • North Quad, Space 2435
This workshop will introduce new graduate students to revising practices to advance their academic writing.
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.
