Graduate Writing Seminar

While dissertation seminars invite students to map the territory and the stakes of their thesis, and article workshops tailor writing for specific journals, this seminar focuses on the craft of writing. Our premise is that craft and argument are mutually constitutive and our method is deliberative slow motion, tracking words, sentences, paragraphs with care. The course is run as a writing workshop; we consider questions of voice, pacing, organization, and word choice. Students are expected to come prepared with a piece of writing they work on for 12 weeks.