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!

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.

Depending on where they are in their dissertation process, writers could end the week with 20 or more drafted dissertation pages.

When: May 19 – May 23, 2025, 8:45 a.m.-4:15 p.m.

Where: Student Success Center

GradsWork Groups

Join the Writing Center for coffee & snacks and some dedicated writing time in a community with other writers.

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.

Days & Times TBD. Please check back in May for days and times.

GradsWrite Groups

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

The Writing Center, in collaboration with the MU Graduate School, will continue our GradsWrite groups in Summer 2024, open to graduate students at Mizzou who are currently working on a long-term writing project such as particularly dissertations and theses, conference papers and articles for publication.

GradsWrite groups provide a shared space to help graduate students accomplish their writing goals in a supportive setting. Groups will meet weekly on Zoom for 2-hour sessions over 8 weeks during the summer semester; groups will focus on helping graduate students set and meet writing goals on long-term writing projects, such as dissertations, with an emphasis on accountability and support. Groups will meet to share, update, revise, and plan weekly goals; no general writing instruction will be provided to the group.

Register for GradsWrite Groups here.