Sample Description:
This seminar takes students through major revision stages that will help you transform your best existing academic paper into 1/ a 20-minute conference-paper that you could present at an academic conference, and 2/ a highly polished essay that is close to ready to submit to an academic journal for publication. The 鈥減racticum鈥 places emphasis on your own, independent work that will allow you to hone, refine, and extensively develop and improve your writing. The course will help guide you, through readings, postings, and discussion, on what makes a compelling, original, publishable piece of work, and how to write with the most vigor, elegance, and originality possible. In addition to actively participating in workshops focusing on peers鈥 essays, students must revise their own work, supplementing their research and rewriting their own essays over the course of the semester. As such, this is a particularly rigorous course, designed to result in a high quality, publishable, article-length essay. Students must have a complete essay draft to begin the course and be prepared to give criticism to and receive criticism from peers in a constructive and responsible manner throughout the semester.
Assessment
Success in the course requires regular attendance, active participation, and timely responses to all review and revision assignments.
