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: 8:45am – 4:15pm, Monday, May 18 – Friday, May 22, 2026.
Where: Student Success Center
Register here.
Registration will be capped at 25 writers with preference given to those writers who have not yet attended a DANG Week.
GradsWorkspace
Visit the Writing Center for a dedicated writing space for Mizzou graduate students on Wednesday mornings this summer! We’ll have coffee & snacks, and a quiet place for you to work.
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’ll greet you and ask you what you’re working on, then we’ll leave you to your work for however long you’d like to stay! When you leave, we’ll ask you how it went (and cheer you on when the to-do list shrinks). Join us for one hour or all three — whatever you need that week!
When: Wednesdays, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., June 3 – July 29, 2026
Where: Writing Center, Student Success Center Suite 100
Register here.
Please feel free to register or just walk in!
GradsWrite Groups
Need a weekly accountability group to help you stay on track this summer? Join a GradsWrite group with Kayla in Summer 2026! Meet weekly to share goals, set new ones, and stay accountable to your writing timeline.
GradsWrite groups, a collaboration between the Graduate School and the Writing Center, are open to graduate students at Mizzou who are currently working on a long-term writing project and are looking for to begin (or restart) a regular, weekly writing practice.
Join Kayla this summer on Tuesdays from 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. to be a part of a graduate student writing community where you will set & meet writing goals on your long-term writing projects — such as dissertations and theses — and work in that group setting once a week to achieve those goals. You should expect to share, update, revise, and plan weekly goals and spend most of the 2 hours actively writing. No general writing instruction will be provided.
When: Tuesdays 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m., June 2 – July 28, 2026
Where: Writing & Research Hub, Ellis Library Room 115
Register here*
*Note that registering for the first week will automatically register participants into all GradsWrite sessions for Summer 2026.