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Making the grade : reimagining the graduate seminar essay in literary studies / edited by Kevin A. Morrison.
Van Pelt Library LB2371.4 .M35 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Making the grade (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Universities and colleges--United States--Graduate work--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Universities and colleges.
- Seminars--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Seminars.
- Essay--Authorship.
- Universities and colleges--Graduate work.
- United States.
- Essay--Authorship--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Essay.
- Academic writing--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Academic writing.
- Genre:
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2021]
- Summary:
- "This book is a great resource for new graduate students interested in knowing how to navigate their studies more effectively and creatively"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE SEMINAR PAPER: HISTORY, CONCEPTION, AND EXPERIENCE
- 1. Essaying Assessment and Assessing the Essay: The Graduate Seminar Paper as Disciplinary Performance / Philip Robinson-Self
- 2. The Cost of Ambiguity: How Students Experience the Graduate Seminar Paper Genre / Thomas Deans
- pt. II ARGUMENT, ETHOS, AND INTERVENTION
- 3. The Seminar Essay as Academic Literary Criticism: Strategies for Entering the Scholarly Conversation / Almas Khan
- 4. Writing with Authority: Ethos and the Seminar Essay / Elizabeth Vogel
- 5. A Scaffold for Scholarship: Revising the Seminar Writing Assignment / Janet G. Auten
- pt. III READING, WRITING, REVISION, AND PRESENTATION
- 6. Setting Up for Success: Strategies for Managing Research and Writing / Marilyn Gray
- 7. Time Management Is Everything: Useful Tips for Graduate Students / Natalie M. Dorfeld
- 8. Peer Review, Revisited: Graduate Writing Groups / Mark Celeste
- 9. Presenting Research Ideas in a Seminar Setting / Lucinda Becker
- pt. IV NEW DIRECTIONS AND EXPANDING POSSIBILITIES
- 10. Digital Methods and Visual Essays in the Classroom / Lisann Anders
- 11. Structural Shifts and the Graduate Literary Essay: Examples for the Twenty-First-Century Classroom / Shanthini Pillai
- 12. Not for Everyone: Experiments in Assessment / Kevin A. Morrison.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Making the grade
- ISBN:
- 9781475856378
- 1475856377
- 9781475856385
- 1475856385
- OCLC:
- 1243909000
- Publisher Number:
- 99987899770
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