Communication
Summer Planning Clinic: Making a Strategic Writing Plan from Now to September
Getting your summer off to a strong start requires knowing where you want to go and how you plan on getting there. This interactive clinic will provide...
Deep Work / Slow Productivity: When You Need Time to Think and Write
Perhaps you’ve heard of the Pomodoro technique for short, productive writing stints, but are finding this doesn’t really work for you. Do you need longer...
Writing Literature Reviews
Many dissertations, research proposals, and articles require a literature review. But many grad students get stuck on this deceptively simple genre of...
The 5 Things You Need to Do to Prep Your Writing for Summer Break
We all know that breaks are important for our well-being and long-term productivity, but how do we take time off without losing momentum on our projects? The...
Writing in Graduate School
Writing plays a central role in sharing research and ideas in academia, yet it frequently becomes a source of worry and isolation for graduate students. This...
Writing the “Good Enough” Dissertation
A good dissertation is a done dissertation – but what makes a dissertation "done"? In this workshop, we'll discuss the difference between an in-process draft...
5 Questions to Ask About the Comprehensive Exams
Preparing to take your Comprehensive Exams? Knowing what questions to ask—and who to turn to—will help you navigate the process of this important milestone...
Ways Generative AI Might Help and Inhibit Success with Writing and Researching
Generative AI (like ChatGPT) has the potential to be a helpful tool, but before you use it, you need to understand the potential consequences to your...
Drafting Clinic
All writers agree: drafting is hard. By “drafting,” we mean that blank-page moment between research and initial draft, when most sentences are being composed...
A Topic is Not a Question: How to Design a Research Question
Determining a field or concentration for your research may be easy enough, but how do you transform a topic of interest into a specific and compelling...
How to Get More Out of Your Reading by Doing Less
Are you looking for tips on how to tame your reading list and take efficient notes on what you’ve read? In this workshop we will break the reading and...