You are invited to attend the Graduate Writing Workshops to sharpen your writing skills. Dr. Krystia Nora has over 20 years of experience nurturing developing writers of all ages. She is a specialist in college writing and has worked with Springfield College graduate students since 2021. She also has run writing centers, taught writing courses, tutored, and trained writing tutors. She regularly presents at College Composition and Communication Conferences and has articles/chapters in Writing on the Edge and Sensing, Moving, Thinking, and Writing: Embodied Practices for College Writers.
GRADUATE WRITING WORKSHOPS Schedule Spring 2024
12 – 1 pm EST on the Fridays and Saturdays listed below.
Office hours for graduate writing questions 11 am - 12 noon & 1-1:30 pm EST on workshop days
Use this link to access the workshops: https://springfield.zoom.us/j/91229745742
Workshop 1, Jan. 26 / 27: Introduction and APA: Guiding principles in depth
This workshop will review APA formatting, guidelines, and proofreading methods to help graduate writers become even more fluent with using their APA manual.
Workshop 2, Feb. 9 / 10: Source material savviness: Literature reviews, part one
Led collaboratively with a Reference Librarian from Library Services, this workshop will review where to find reliable sources, strategies to read and glean necessary information, and methods to refine research topics. The content of this workshop will help a writer situate what others have said about a topic with what still needs to be said.
Workshop 3, Feb. 23 / 24: Organizing, analyzing, and synthesizing: Literature reviews, part two
This workshop will review strategies for writing literature reviews that analyze and synthesize pertinent print source materials relevant to researched topics with an eye toward showing that a gap still remains – a gap the graduate writer will attempt to fill.
Workshop 4, March 8 / 9: Contributing to academic conversations: Writing styles and conventions of three research methodologies.
This workshop will provide an overview of the three most common graduate research methodologies and writing practices: theoretical, qualitative, and quantitative. We will examine how each methodology works to contribute something new to a larger conversation on a topic.
Workshop 5, April 12 / 13: On logic: Strategies for analytical writing
This workshop will help a research writer make sure they are making sense, following a logical progression of ideas, and avoiding some common pitfalls of graduate writers.
Workshop 6, April 19 / 20: Strategies for global and small-scale revision
This workshop will provide strategies to use published articles in your field as models to help revise and refine your research writing projects. This workshop will go over methods to refine sequencing, logic, and development of ideas to help turn rough drafts into stellar final drafts
Workshop 7, May 3 / 4: Sharpening writing, Q/A, Special Topics by Request
This workshop will review strategies to sharpen writing, answer questions, and provide information about semester-specific topics based on student requests.
GRADUATE WRITING ASSISTANCE: individualized one-hour appointments are also available. Sign up for help with your research writing process, from brainstorming and drafting through revisions and proofreading by signing up here: Schedule a Writing Tutoring Appointment or by emailing Dr. Nora at cnora@springfieldcollege.edu.