Visit our Rackham-Sweetland Workshops on Writing page to register for the following workshops.
Transition to Graduate Writing I
Writing in graduate school calls on students to work in a variety of new genres and challenges writers to expand on their skills as communicators. This workshop will help early graduate student writers identify critical practices and strategies to enhance their writing. We will focus on how to become more strategic readers, and examine patterns of inquiry across disciplines, including the practice of asking good questions and the importance of topic construction. We will also focus on the variety of communication forms graduate writing can take, and what these genres entail. The workshop will conclude by offering a variety of good writing habits and processes to develop in your early graduate student years.
Presented by Cat Cassel
Tuesday, October 7, 11:00-12:30pm
Rackham Building, West Conference Room (4th floor)
Editing and Style for Graduate Writers
How can you catch grammatical or typographical errors before submitting your conference paper? How can you “sound” like yourself while maintaining a professional, academic voice in your dissertation? In this workshop, you will focus on applying editing strategies and stylistic choices in graduate writing. You will learn tips for editing your own writing and practice identifying common grammatical and typographical errors in writing samples. You will also explore the rhetorical effectiveness of stylistic elements commonly found in academic and professional writing and practice applying them to your own writing project. Writers should bring a current writing project to work on.
Presented by Allie Piippo
Friday, October 24, 2:30-4:00pm
Zoom only
Writing Literature Reviews
How do I turn this never-ending tangle of literature into a neat, polished review? In this interactive workshop, we'll cover laying the foundation for your scholarly literature review and then taking that first critical step towards composition. We'll crowdsource tips for generating a source list, organizing it as you go, and starting to extract themes and ideas for section headings from your reading library. We'll also cover the basics of structure to reduce the barrier for writing your first sections. Whether you're halfway through or just starting out, you'll have a chance to take the next step on organizing, defining your purpose, or revising your argumentation. This presentation will focus on reviews in the sciences, but concepts are generalizable to all literature reviews.
Presented by Jimmy Brancho
Wednesday, November 19, 3-4:30pm
Rackham Building, Earl Lewis Room (3rd floor)
