Academic Support: Graduate-Level Writing – October 21

Rowe 4001:

On October 21 from 1:00-2:30, IM Subject Librarian Lindsay MacNiff presents the next workshop in the Academic Support Series: “Graduate Academic Writing.” This workshop will look broadly at the craft of academic writing and at some of its more technical aspects. Topics to be covered include the following:

• Expectations of writing at the graduate level
• process-oriented writing
• the idea of genre
• forming a thesis
• organizing a paper
• using the work of others in your writing
• improving the clarity of your writing at the sentence level
• paragraph construction
• writing critically
• common technical errors, and
• verb tenses in academic writing