Please find descriptions of the events to be offered in Spring 2025 below. Please check back for dates, times, and registration links!

Dissertation Acceleration & Navigation Group (D.A.N.G.)

The Dissertation Acceleration and Navigation Group is a week of focused and dedicated writing time designed to jumpstart the dissertation writing process. If you have passed your proposal and want help jumpstarting, progressing or finishing your dissertation, we can help!

January 2024 DANG attendees have reported an average of 24 pages drafted during the event. 

We will have structured writing time with scheduled breaks before we break for lunch (provided). The afternoon sessions will pick back up on with another presentation on an associated topic, sometimes from outside guests, before launching back into structured writing time. Each day will end with getting organized, reflecting on successes, and creating a plan for the next day.

GradsWrite Groups

Need a weekly accountability group to help you stay on track this spring? Join a GradsWrite group! Meet weekly to share goals, set new ones, and stay accountable to your writing timeline.

GradsWork Groups

Whether you are working on dissertations/theses, assignments for coursework, conference proposals/papers, article drafts or revisions, or courses you are teaching or assisting, all writers and all projects are welcome.

What to expect: We will invite participants to share goals at the beginning of the session, then work quietly and independently for the duration of the session. No general writing instruction will be provided at the sessions. We will invite participants to report progress and/or future goals at the end of the session.

Teaching & Research Statements

The Writing Center, in collaboration with the MU Graduate School, will host 2 workshops as part of the Teaching and Research Statement three-part series. The spring workshops will be helpful to graduate students who have a draft of each of these statements and would like outside feedback as they continue revising these drafts.

Workshopping the Teaching Statement

If you have already begun drafting your statement and would like feedback on your draft, please bring it to the workshop! We will begin by offering a structure for helpful feedback on these particular statements and then will break into groups for real-time feedback.

Workshopping the Research Statement

If you have already begun drafting your statement and would like feedback on your draft, please bring it to the workshop! We will begin by offering a structure for helpful feedback on these particular statements and then will break into groups for real-time feedback.