Description. This workshop will focus on the distinctive demands of reading and responding to writing for graduate-level courses and research. We will cover concepts such as the genre conventions of scholarly writing and how understanding those can help you navigate your way through scholarly work, strategies for reading and responding to unfamiliar or difficult scholarly texts, and expectations of professors for how graduate students are expected to use the scholarship they read in class discussions and in the students' writing.

Learning Outcomes. As a result of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Gain a greater understanding of the genre conventions of scholarly writing. 

2. Learn strategies for reading and responding through writing to scholarly articles.

3. Gain a greater understanding of how to approach issues of documentation and citation.

Presenter(s). The University of Louisville Writing Center staff. 

Please register for this event here.