Upcoming Writing Workshop

The Rackham/Sweetland Workshops cover a host of topics designed to help graduate students in various aspects of writing. For example, they run workshops to help you write research, teaching, personal and diversity statements for fellowship applications as well as academic positions.   Writing well is an important skill mathematicians need to develop!  Here in the math department, we’ve also gathered some advice on writing from math PhD students and professors.

Check out the upcoming Rackham/Sweetland Workshop: The Transition to Graduate Writing

Monday, November 25, 2019

11:30 – 1:00

Room 2435 North Quad

Please register to attend.

Abstract:
Writing in graduate school calls on students to work in a variety of new genres and challenges writers to expand on their skills as communicators.  This workshop will help early graduate student writers identify critical practices and strategies to enhance their writing and build an effective approach to graduate writing.  We’ll talk about becoming more strategic readers and examine patterns of inquiry across disciplines moving from the practice of asking good questions to the importance of topic construction.  We will also talk about the variety of communication forms graduate writing can take.  The workshop will conclude by examining our writing routines and finding ways to expand our own writing process to succeed in graduate school.  Lunch will be provided.

Presenter:  Louis Cicciarelli, Sweetland Center for Writing

By Karen E Smith

Professor of Mathematics Associate Chair for Gradate Studies