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Description
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Beginning in 2001, the Graduate School’s Intellectual
Entrepreneurship Program (IE), in partnership with the Undergraduate
Writing Center (UWC), provides academic departments with an opportunity
to participate in a “Graduate Writing” pilot project. Graduate
students in selected departments are offered one-to-one writing
consultations. In addition, and as need and resources allow, consultants
provide workshops on writing grant proposals, theses, dissertation
chapters, job letters, teaching statements, and other documents;
consultants may also facilitate student writing groups and, with IE and
UWC staff, collaborate with departmental faculty to develop sustainable
methods of writing instruction.
In order to pay for these writing services, participating departments
contribute one TA/AI line or comparable funds with which
the Graduate School and UWC hire a writing consultant. In exchange, a
graduate student from the contracting department is employed and trained
by IE faculty (who teach graduate-level courses in communication and
writing) and UWC administrative staff (who have experience with
one-to-one writing consultation) to help other graduate students develop
their writing. This training supplements IE courses and workshops by
providing graduate students with additional experience as teachers,
editors, and writers, thus enhancing their professional development.
The services offered by consultants, like those provided through IE
courses and workshops, are valuable to both U.S. and international
students. The philosophy behind the Graduate Writing project is that
substantive and continued writing support benefits all graduate
students, however advanced they may be in their studies and regardless
of their skills.
http://www.utexas.edu/ogs/rc/pilot.html
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