Academic Workshops and Webinars
Cultivate the Writer Academic Workshops and Webinars fill an important need in graduate education: they provide instruction on the necessary academic and personal skills needed for academic success. Those skills include scholarly writing, academic productivity, presentation skills and critical thinking, such as analyzing and synthesizing information across multiple sources. The earlier these skills are developed, the better. So, our sessions are designed to build these important skills among graduate students.
The goal of our academic workshops and webinars is to improve scholarly writing proficiency, achieve academic productivity, facilitate dissertation completion and increase publication success. By accomplishing these goals, we assist budding scholars in overcoming the common challenges that lead to program disengagement and attrition as well as faculty frustration with student work.
How Academic Workshops & Webinars Work
We have 28 topics that can be delivered in person as a workshop or virtually as a webinar. Our topics are categorized into five modules for early, mid-stage and late stage graduate students:
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Academic Sink or Swim for incoming/first year graduate students (6 sessions)
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Growing as a Scholar for mid-stage graduate students completing coursework (7 sessions)
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From ABD to PhD for all late-stage graduate students working on an independent writing project, including a dissertation, thesis, capstone project or final project (6 sessions)
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Special Topics: Completing a Professional Dossier (5 sessions)
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Special Topics: Employment Soft Skills (4 sessions)
Our campus workshops/webinars are offered in three tiers:
Tier 1: Individual Sessions
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60-90 minutes
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Campus-based or webinar
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Cost = $1,000 - $1,650, depending on length
Tier 2: Semester Series
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3-6 sessions
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60-90 minutes
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Monthly or biweekly
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Progressive skill-building or a mixture of academic and workplace skills
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Cost = $3,300 - $9,000, depending on length and number of sessions
Tier 3: Dissertation Boot Camps & Writing Intensives
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Full-day, several half days or multi-day sessions
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Includes writing instruction, coaching and practical application
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Can be delivered in person, virtually or a hybrid format
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Participation limited to 25 attendees to provide personalized support
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Cost is $4,500 - $7,500, depending on format
*Fee does not include travel and accommodations, when needed
Organizations interested in hosting Cultivate the Writer workshops/webinars can select topics from any module; topic titles and descriptions are detailed below.
Who Hosts Our Academic Workshops & Webinars?
Graduate schools, academic departments, colleges, education funds, professional organizations and faculty host Cultivate the Writer sessions for:
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New graduate student orientations
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Academic year professional development series
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Programs for first generation students and students in fellowship programs
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Campus-based dissertation boot camps
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Conference sessions
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Writing intensives for specific majors
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International students
