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For graduate students and postdocs – a variety of resources are available to meet your writing and publishing needs including workshops, consultations, a writing partners program, and writer's retreats.

Workshops and Events

Providing Effective Feedback on Student Writing

February 14, 2024 | 4:10pm -5:30pm, 1220 Walker Hall (Gibeling Room)

Written feedback on writing assignments can be an invaluable part of the learning process for students, but it can also be extremely labor intensive for instructors. Those grading papers are often left wondering what they should be leaving comments on and how much feedback is enough or too much. To answer these questions, this workshop will discuss theories and strategies to provide effective feedback and the benefits of using assignment-specific rubrics(including rubrics on Canvas). Attendees will learn about common strategies to provide effective written feedback and prioritize important features of writing necessary for their particular classes, including for multilingual students. 

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Writing Accountability Workshop

February 22, 2024 | 4:00pm -5:00pm, 1220 Walker Hall (Gibeling Room)

Could You Use Some Extra Support with Your Dissertation or Thesis Writing Process?

Are you struggling in completing your dissertation or thesis writing? This workshop will focus on developing critical skills for dissertation/thesis writing-- goal setting, time management, motivation enhancement, and stress management.

Presenter: Dr. Bai-Yin Chen, Licensed Psychologist, Counseling Services.  Bai-Yin Chen is a psychologist specializing in graduate student mental health. 

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Mastering the Dissertation Prospectus

February 26, 2024 | 1:00pm -3:00pm, 1130 Walker Hall (East Conference Room)

We love it, hate it, or love to hate it — this is the time to make your research shine! This retreat will be dedicated to writing the dissertation prospectus. Whatever stage you’re at, whether it’s thinking, drafting, or revising, come on through for a short (20-min) presentation by Graduate Writing Fellow Kay Garlick-Ott followed by dedicated work time (2-hours) where we will put pen to paper and apply what we’ve learned. We’ll address goal-setting, structure, and writing rhetorical moves, focusing primarily on STEM fields, but folks from other disciplines are welcome to join and share their expertise!

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Writing Fellowship and Grant Applications 

February 28, 2024 | 11:30am -1:00pm, 1220 Walker Hall (Gibeling Room)

This workshop will provide strategies for writing persuasive fellowship and grant applications, as well as finding the right funding source and managing the writing process.

Pizza will be provided for registered participants, so please be sure to register!

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Writing Retreat: Mentor Texts: What They Are and How to Use Them

March 5, 2024 | 10:00am -12:00pm, 1220 Walker Hall (Gibeling Room)

Description: In graduate school, we are often writing new genres for the first time - our first journal article, our first thesis/dissertation, our first grant proposal. Each genre has its own conventions, whether spoken or unspoken, and it can be hard to know where to begin. Sound familiar? Join our writing retreat focused on mentor texts (successful examples from a given genre) and how they can guide and inform our writing. Open to Graduate Students at any stage of the writing process, this retreat will cover strategies for finding and utilizing mentor texts. A 30-minute presentation by Graduate Writing Fellow Mattea Berglund will be followed by open working and writing time, during which Mattea will be available for individual questions. There is no requirement to attend the retreat for the entire time. Attendees are encouraged to sign up for one-on-one appointments with a Graduate Writing Fellow for more extensive personalized assistance using this link.

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Mastering Self-Editing: Become Your Own Best Critic!

March 6, 2024 | 2:00pm -3:30pm, 1130 Walker Hall (East Conference Room)

Are you struggling to achieve clarity and conciseness in your writing? Join us to learn about the secrets of self-editing. Guided by Graduate Writing Fellow Bradley Christin, you will learn how to refine sentence structure, streamline your thoughts, and make your writing flow - in just 30 minutes! Following this, you’ll have the opportunity to receive personalized feedback tailored to your particular writing needs. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your articulation and create compelling masterpieces ready to be shared with the world! 

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Overcoming Writers' Block or Managing Large Writing Projects

March 8, 2024 | 1:00pm - 2:30pm, 1220 Walker Hall (West Conference Room)

Tackling a large writing project can seem overwhelming, even daunting, when we first get started. After all, what does the next week or month or year have in store for us? How can we set attainable and purposeful tasks that keep us on track? This workshop will discuss tips and strategies for getting organized and staying motivated when working on a large writing project. Attendees will learn about organization and effective time management skills for projects that range from term papers to dissertations to journal articles.

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Alison Moore has a PhD in rhetoric and composition with an emphasis in writing for social justice and writing across the curriculum. She’s currently a lecturer in the University Writing Program where she teaches first-year writing and upper-division writing courses such as Writing for Social Justice, Journalism, and Advanced Composition. 

 

Understanding and Starting a Literature Review

March 22, 2024 | 12:00pm -1:30pm, 1220 Walker Hall (Gibeling Room)

Please join us for this interactive workshop where we’ll discuss best practices for understanding and starting a literature review. We’ll start with discussing the purpose for writing a literature review and how writing one can help you in your graduate studies. Then we’ll move into discussing strategies for developing a research question and using a matrix to manage the literature as you begin reading and exploring your sources. The workshop will include time for some hands-on practice synthesizing the literature and best practices for doing so. We will have plenty of time to discuss drafting the literature review and to think through any difficulties you may be encountering in the process.

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Instructor: Katie Arosteguy is a Continuing Lecturer in the University Writing Program at UC Davis, where she teaches a variety of upper-division writing courses, including advanced composition, writing in education, writing in psychology, business writing, writing in the health professions, and legal writing. Her research interests include teacher preparation/education, k-12 literacy & tutor preparation, and rhetorical approaches to professional writing and writing in the disciplines. She and two of her colleagues published a book with Teachers College Press titled A Student’s Guide to Academic and Professional Writing in Education in2019. She holds a Ph.D. in English from Washington State University, an MA and secondary teaching credential in English from California State University, Sacramento, and a BA in English and BS in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Davis. She is also a part-time evening law student at University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law.


Graduate Writing Retreats

Graduate Writing Retreats are 3-hours long and feature a short topic discussion from a Graduate Writing Fellow (GWF).  Quiet writing space is also available for those who wish to write only.  GWFs will also provide on the spot writing consultations for those seeking writing assistance.  Open to all graduate students and postdoctoral scholars.  Snacks and tea provided for in-person retreats.

Graduate Writing Retreats Date, Time Location in Walker Hall  

Writing Internal Fellowships

1/9/2024, 10am - 1pm

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Writing Consultations

Graduate Writing Fellows offer one-on-one writing consultations with enrolled UC Davis graduate students and postdocs. Help is available for any stage of the writing process. See more: https://writing.ucdavis.edu/gradwriting/consultations. 

Writing Partners Program

The Writing Partner Program will create mutually beneficial relationships with the goal of becoming productive writers. This act of peer review is helpful for learning about different styles of writing, genre conventions, and more.  Participants sign-up and are matched with a writing partner.

Graduate Certificate In Writing Theory and Practice

This workshop curriculum has been developed by faculty from the University Writing Program and by Graduate Writing Fellows from across the disciplines to help graduate students learn to prepare work for publication, deepen their knowledge of writing theory, or learn cross-disciplinary principles for incorporating writing into teaching through this certificate.

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Leadership and Management | Professionalism and Ethics | Career Management | Wellness and Life Balance

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