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Meeting ID: 769 953 6459
Academic American Conventions for Multilingual Writers for Dissertations, Publications, and other Scholarly Work
September 4, 4:00–5:00 p.m.
Audience: International students
With Tyler Nuñez, associate director of the CSC and doctoral candidate in Composition and Applied Linguistics
This workshop offers a thorough overview of how multilingual writers can implement academic writing while still maintaining their cultural and identity practices. We will discuss common American Academic English conventions for scholarly writing for international students. Topics will include considerations of audience and organization, managing sources and source use, and common challenges that international and multilingual writers face.
Introduction to Using AI for Research and Writing
September 25, 5:00–6:00 p.m.Audience: Faculty and Graduate Students
With Tyler Nuñez, associate director of the CSC and doctoral candidate in Composition and Applied Linguistics
Implements AI as a powerful tool that aids researchers in their writing process. We introduce popular programs and their unique strengths while highlighting the potential drawbacks and challenges. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of ethical usage and advice on how graduate researchers can utilize these programs well.
Writing as a Neurodivergent Person - Composing Strategies for Scholarly Communication
October 8, 5:30–6:30 p.m.
Audience: Neurodivergent graduate students and faculty
With Madeleine Rosa, associate director of the CSC and doctoral candidate in Composition and Applied Linguistics
While there are an abundance of strategies aimed at writing effectively, these strategies often do not take neurodivergent writers’ needs into consideration. This workshop is intended to support neurodivergent writers of all levels. Including for those with autism, Asperger’s syndrome, ADD/ADHD, OCD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, Tourette syndrome, and other types of neurodiversity. This workshop will focus on advanced writing practices, such as writing in graduate coursework, dissertation/thesis, or independent academic work. It will explore strategies for scheduling writing sessions, breaking down the drafting process into tangible tasks, and maximizing cognitive strengths associated with neurodivergence, including abstract thinking, non-linear planning, and fluctuating energy levels.
Dissertation and Thesis Writing Boot Camp
October 25, Noon–5:00 p.m.
Audience: Graduate students
Join us for our fall 2025 Dissertation and Thesis Writing Boot Camp: five workshops, a silent writing room, and consultants ready to help you progress on your dissertation and thesis writing journey. Our workshops for the boot camp are:
- Noon–12:50 p.m.: Introduction and Crash Course in Key Strategies for Dissertation and Thesis Writing Success
- 1:00–1:50 p.m.: Getting it all Organized with EndNote and other Note-Taking Apps
- 2:00–2:50 p.m.: Mastering Your Literature Review
- 3:00–3:50 p.m.: Thinking about the Research Design Process: Logic and Alignment
- 4:00–4:50 p.m.: Avoiding Plagiarism, Addressing Patchwriting, and Ethical Citation Practices for Thesis and Dissertation Writers in the Age of AI
Dissertation Formatting Workshop
October 28, 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Audience: Graduate Students
With Amiranda Adams, CSC consultant and doctoral candidate in Composition and Applied Linguistics
The Center for Scholarly Communication will offer an interactive workshop on APA 7 formatting as it applies to thesis or dissertation writing. This workshop is designed for those who are nearing completion of their dissertation and/or who want to learn more about formatting. The workshop will cover formatting of the title page, front matter, tables, chapters, headings, and more. Amiranda will also be available at the end of the workshop to answer individual questions on dissertation formatting.
Enhancing Dissertation Supervision: Supporting the Development of Doctoral Student Expertise and Effective Feedback Practices
November 6, 4:00–5:30 p.m.
Audience: Faculty engaged in dissertation supervision
With Dana Driscoll, professor of writing and founding director of the Center for Scholarly Communication
The landscape of doctoral education is evolving rapidly, placing new demands on faculty supervisors. This workshop is designed to enhance your effectiveness as a doctoral supervisor and mentor through exploring expertise development and examining how faculty influence shapes doctoral students’ professional trajectories with feedback practices. This includes managing mentoring relationships and time, structured approaches to dissertation feedback, and ethical integration of AI into your supervision practices. Through this workshop, you will gain concrete strategies for nurturing doctoral students’ growth from novice researchers to independent scholars. Ideal for faculty seeking to strengthen their supervision and feedback practices and maximize their impact on student success.
Available CSC Workshops
Academic American Conventions for Multilingual Writers for Dissertations, Publications, and other Scholarly Work
This workshop offers a thorough overview of how multilingual writers can implement academic writing while still maintaining their cultural and identity practices. We will discuss common American Academic English conventions for scholarly writing for international students. Topics will include considerations of audience and organization, managing sources and source use, and common challenges that international and multilingual writers face.
Approximate time: 50 minutes
Ideal for international graduate students.
Avoiding Plagiarism for Graduate Writers
This workshop introduces graduate writers of any level to how to avoid plagiarism in their writing, both in graduate coursework and at the dissertation and thesis stages. The workshop will cover cultural expectations, reading and citation strategies, managing large numbers of sources, and self-citation. The workshop will also cover how to understand and work with the iThenticate program, which is used by the graduate school prior to submission of your thesis or dissertation. Finally, this workshop will also introduce the Jones White Writing Center’s graduate editing service.
Approximate time: 50 minutes
Ideal for all graduate students.
Common Challenges in Graduate Student Writing
This workshop covers five common challenges that graduate student writers face in their writing, particularly as they are transitioning from earlier degree programs. These challenges include emotional management and self-efficacy, time management and goal setting, appropriate source use, avoiding unclear and imprecise language, overcoming verbosity, and using appropriate organizational strategies.
Approximate time: 50 minutes
Ideal for all graduate students.
Completing Your Dissertation Successfully
This workshop offers graduate students strategies for successfully writing a thesis or dissertation, focusing on time management and handling feedback. The workshop offers research-supported strategies for time management, goal setting, and creating space for writing to help you successfully create time for writing. The workshop also covers how to manage feedback from your advisor and committee members and strategies for engaging in extensive revisions of your thesis or dissertation.
Approximate time: 50 minutes
Ideal for all graduate students preparing to write a thesis or dissertation and/or in the process of writing.
Dissertation Formatting Workshop
The Center for Scholarly Communication will offer an interactive workshop on APA 7 formatting as it applies to thesis or dissertation writing. This workshop is designed for those who are nearing completion of their dissertation and/or who want to learn more about formatting. The workshop will cover formatting of the title page, front matter, tables, chapters, headings, and more.
Approximate time: 50 minutes
Ideal for all graduate students.
Enhancing Dissertation Supervision: Supporting the Development of Doctoral Student Expertise and Effective Feedback Practices
The landscape of doctoral education is evolving rapidly, placing new demands on faculty supervisors. This workshop is designed to enhance your effectiveness as a doctoral supervisor and mentor through exploring expertise development and examining how faculty influence shapes doctoral students’ professional trajectories with feedback practices. This includes managing mentoring relationships and time, structured approaches to dissertation feedback, and ethical integration of AI into your supervision practices. Through this workshop, you will gain concrete strategies for nurturing doctoral students’ growth from novice researchers to independent scholars. Ideal for faculty seeking to strengthen their supervision and feedback practices and maximize their impact on student success.
Approximate time: 50 minutes
Ideal for faculty engaged in dissertation supervision.
Interactive Workshop: Synthesizing Sources, Building and Refining Arguments, and Writing Literature Reviews
For this interactive workshop, participants are asked to bring a working draft of a literature review they are currently working on and learn a variety of techniques for effective source synthesis, argument building, and organizing their literature review.
Approximate time: 50 minutes
Ideal for all graduate students.
Introduction to Using AI for Research and Writing
Implements AI as a powerful tool that aids researchers in their writing process. We introduce popular programs and their unique strengths while highlighting the potential drawbacks and challenges. Finally, we conclude with a discussion of ethical usage and advice on how graduate researchers can utilize these programs well.
Approximate time: 50 minutes
Ideal for Faculty and graduate students.
Introduction to the Writing Center and Graduate Editing Service
This workshop offers information for graduate students on the Writing Center and Graduate Editing Service. Typically, we pair this workshop with other content (see below).
Approximate time: 20 minutes
Ideal for graduate students who will need to complete a thesis or dissertation.
Introduction to Writing for Publication
This workshop offers graduate students an introduction to writing for publication. The workshop covers multiple strategies for publishing your dissertation or thesis and will present an overview of writing for publication in peer-reviewed journals, the difference between writing for coursework and writing for publications, and how to make contributions to your field.
Approximate time: 50 minutes
Ideal for all graduate students.
Mastering Your Literature Review
Approximate time: 50 minutes
Ideal for all graduate students.
Successfully Managing Committee and Advisor Feedback
This workshop delves deeply into revision techniques for graduate students, including revising based on committee/advisor feedback at the thesis or dissertation stage. We offer strategies for navigating and understanding, developing revision plans and coordinating revision, and building support networks and writing groups.
Approximate time: 50 minutes
Ideal for all graduate students.
Writing a Literature Review and Appropriate Citation Strategies
This workshop helps students understand the value of a literature review and offers strategies for how to effectively write one at the graduate level. It covers structuring a literature review, reading strategies, writing strategies, synthesis, and appropriate citation strategies. We will tailor this workshop to your student and disciplinary needs.
Approximate time: 50 minutes
Ideal for all graduate students.
Writing as a Neurodivergent Person - Composing Strategies for Scholarly Communication
While there are an abundance of strategies aimed at writing effectively, these strategies often do not take neurodivergent writers’ needs into consideration. This workshop is intended to support neurodivergent writers of all levels. Including for those with autism, Asperger’s syndrome, ADD/ADHD, OCD, dyslexia, dyspraxia, Tourette syndrome, and other types of neurodiversity. This workshop will focus on advanced writing practices, such as writing in graduate coursework, dissertation/thesis, or independent academic work. It will explore strategies for scheduling writing sessions, breaking down the drafting process into tangible tasks, and maximizing cognitive strengths associated with neurodivergence, including abstract thinking, non-linear planning, and fluctuating energy levels.
Approximate time: 50 minutes
Ideal for Neurodivergent graduate students and faculty.
Writing Workshop: Building Arguments and Organization Strategies for Advanced Academic Writing
In this workshop, you will be working with your own writing to learn and apply specific advanced strategies for building arguments with the literature.
Approximate time: 50 minutes
Ideal for all graduate students.