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What’s Reading Got to Do With It?: Reading to Support Writing in Graduate School

Space 2435, North Quad 105 South State Street, Ann Arbor, United States

This workshop will explore 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 we read to support our work as writers in our specific academic fields and disciplines? In this 50-minute Rackham/Sweetland workshop, […]

Who are You Talking to?: Identifying and Responding to Your Interlocutors

Space 2435, North Quad 105 South State Street, Ann Arbor, United States

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 […]

How to Make Revision Count: Revising Practices for Graduate Students

Space 2435, North Quad 105 South State Street, Ann Arbor, United States

This workshop will introduce new graduate students to revising practices to help them thrive in their academic writing. The most critical phase in the writing process is also the most mysterious and untaught. Revision is especially challenging for first-year graduate writers learning to write extended arguments for academic purposes. What do academic writers do when […]

How Do You Conceptualize Your Time in Graduate School?: From the Physical to the Philosophical

Space 2435, North Quad 105 South State Street, Ann Arbor, United States

This workshop will address time management strategies, and effective habits and motivation for early graduate school success. 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 […]

Rackham/Sweetland Workshops on Writing: Revising to Publish

East Conference Room, 4th Floor, Rackham Building 915 East Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

This workshop will provide an overview of how to revise a course or conference paper for publication. We will start with a review of useful publishing resources, and move through exercises to redefine your argument, identify a target journal, and design a writing schedule to achieve your publication goals. Students should bring a course or […]

Rackham/Sweetland Workshops on Writing: Writing with ChatGPT

East Conference Room, 4th Floor, Rackham Building 915 East Washington Street, Ann Arbor, MI, United States

This workshop will provide students with techniques for graduate writing with ChatGPT. We will start with a brief overview of current academic conversations about ChatGPT, authorship, and citation, and we will consider how disciplinary contexts might shape these conversations. We will then practice a series of prompts and writing exercises graduate students can use while […]

Rackham/Sweetland Writing Workshop: How Do You Conceptualize Your Time in Graduate School? From the Practical to the Philosophical

Space 2435, North Quad 105 South State Street, Ann Arbor, United States

This workshop will address time management strategies, and effective habits and motivation for early graduate school success. 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 […]

Rackham/Sweetland Workshop: What’s Reading Got to Do with It? Reading to Support Writing in Graduate School

Space 2435, North Quad 105 South State Street, Ann Arbor, United States

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 […]

Rackham/Sweetland Workshop: Who Are You Talking To? Identifying and Responding To Your Interlocutors

Space 2435, North Quad 105 South State Street, Ann Arbor, United States

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 […]

Rackham/Sweetland Workshop: How to Make Revision Count—Revising Practices for Graduate Students

Space 2435, North Quad 105 South State Street, Ann Arbor, United States

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? […]