Advanced Research Writing Institute

2 units

This course is designed for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral scholars who are in the process of writing a product of a major research project in the form of a dissertation, thesis, grant proposal, or publication. Throughout this course, students will develop their own individual major writing project, developing their academic writing skills by analyzing and producing discipline-specific text. Students will gain greater control over grammatical and rhetorical structures appropriate to their discipline-specific writing in addition to learning about online and local resources to support their writing. Through individualized instructor attention and frequent writing workshops, students will develop an awareness of their own strengths and weaknesses as writers, establishing strategies and habits to build strengths and overcome weaknesses.