Are you struggling with the process of trying to write? How to Overcome Writing Blocks Part 1: Getting Going Sponsored by Graduate Studies (GradPathways) and the University Writing Program. Instructor: Rebekka Andersen, Ph.D., University Writing Program.

In this workshop, you come to see how reading and writing and interdependent, recursive processes. Employing active reading strategies will help you to engage with, and make critical connections among, the scholarly texts that you will need to draw on when writing your dissertation chapters and articles. This workshop will introduce you to active reading strategies - such annotating texts and reading from a rhetorical and critical perspective - that will help you to not only remember the key points of what you read but also to write about what you have read long after you have read it. The way you read articles, books, and other scholarship influences what you are able to write, how you are able to write it, and how effective or persuasive that writing is.

Instructor: Julia Menard-Warwick, Associate Professor, Linguistics. Requires registration - contact instructor for CRN (2 unit course). The goal is not to bemoan the current state of the university (although there may be some of that), but rather, in a constructive and positive manner, to help prepare participants to enter academic settings with a clearly-articulated sense of personal and professional ethics and integrity. In investigating the various conflicts and ethical dilemmas, the seminar will approach topics from a range of perspectives, through interactive discussion and roleplaying. | 273 Kerr Hall Ethics and Professionalism in the University The purpose of this seminar is to open up for discussion, to investigate, and explore a range of ethical debates and/or conflicts that have surfaced in the contemporary university.

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