How to Grad Student: Becoming an Effective Writer in Graduate School

Whether you are moving directly from your undergraduate degree or returning after some time away, the first term of graduate school will challenge you to expand skills critical to your success. Two of the most essential skills needed to thrive are reading and writing. This four-part Rackham/Sweetland workshop series will showcase reading and writing practices for new graduate students that will inform your approaches to reading and writing through the course of your graduate career.



How to Make Revision Count: Revising Practices for Graduate Students

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Rackham Building - Earl Lewis Room - 3rd Floor
Louis Cicciarelli

Learn tips for editing your own writing and explore the rhetorical effectiveness of stylistic elements commonly found in academic and professional writing, then practice applying these strategies to your work.

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.

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