Making the Grade

Reimagining the Graduate Seminar Essay in Literary Studies
Herausgeber: Morrison, Kevin A.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a great resource for new graduate students interested in knowing how to navigate their studies more effectively and creatively.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 461g
• ISBN-13: 9781475856378
• ISBN-10: 1475856377
• Artikelnr.: 61184171

Autorenporträt

Edited by Kevin A. Morrison

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Graduate Classroom Staple
Kevin A. Morrison
Part One: The Seminar Paper: History, Conception, Experience
1. Essaying Assessment and Assessing the Essay: The Graduate Seminar Paper
as Disciplinary Performance
Phil Robinson-Self
2. The Cost of Ambiguity: How Students Experience the Graduate Seminar
Paper Genre
Gabriel Morrison and Thomas Deans
Part Two: Argument, Ethos, Intervention
3. The Seminar Essay as Academic Literary Criticism: Strategies for
Entering the Scholarly Conversation
Almas Khan
4. Writing with Authority: Ethos and the Seminar Essay in English Studies
Elizabeth Vogel
5. A Scaffold for Scholarship: Re-vising the Seminar Writing Assignment
Janet G. Auten
Part Three: Reading, Writing, Revision, and Presentation
6. Setting Up for Success: Strategies for Managing Research and Writing
Marilyn Gray
7. Time Management is Everything: Useful Tips for Graduate Students
Natalie M. Dorfeld
8. Peer Review, Revisited: Graduate Writing Groups
Mark Celeste
9. Presenting Research Ideas in a Seminar Setting
Lucinda Becker
Part Four: New Directions, Expanding Possibilities
10. Digital Methods and Visual Essays in the Classroom
Lisann Anders
11. Structural Shifts and the Graduate Literary Essay: Examples for the
Twenty-First Century Classroom
Shanthini Pillai
12. Not for Everyone: Experiments in Assessment
Kevin A. Morrison
Coda: Demystifying the Seminar Paper
Jessie Reeder