CUNY Academic Commons

Dissertation Workshop – Fall 2016

This seminar gives participants the opportunity to develop and complete their dissertation prospectus and/or draft dissertation chapters. It is conducted as a workshop with members reading and commenting on one another’s work under the professor’s guidance. We discuss the dissertation as an always-evolving genre as well as practical issues of writing and revision, research and research methods, documentation, presentation, and more. We also talk about professionalizing matters including engagement with current scholarly conversations and theoretical discourses, creating conference presentations and scholarly articles as part of the dissertation writing process, and thinking about the dissertation as a draft of a first monograph.