Academic Writing and the Study of Learning

1 Unit · Graduate

This graduate seminar will support our collective development as writers through: 1) the guided explication of multiple models of academic writing in the Learning Sciences and educational research more broadly; 2) routine exercises that bring close attention to the processes of writing and revision, including writing as thinking, pedagogy, and relationship; 3) weekly small group sessions (bi-weekly with a member of the instructional team) where students share writing and work towards the development of a paper or milestone in their program; 4) routine craft-talk conversations with guest writers; and 5) weekly pedagogical reections on the course itself. Throughout we will consider: structures of writing for various genres (lit reviews, theoretical & empirical papers, proposals, dissertations, etc.); the development of one's writerly voices; questions of audience, rhetoric and representation and their connections to power, ethics, and social change; and what it can look like to bring together scientific and poetic modalities to craft arguments and bring evidence to bear on issues of concern to educational writers and the societies within which we live and work.