GRD 699

 1. GRD 699: DISSERTATION 

The Graduate School is offering GRD 699 (Dissertation) once again for Spring 2023.  This course is available to all ABD doctoral students (in place of their departmental 699). Students should discuss their interest in GRD 699 with their faculty adviser and if approved, work with their department staff to be enrolled (CRN 33616). 

This one-credit independent study course, taught by Robert Danberg of the Writing Initiative, is designed to assist graduate students in two ways: identify a project goal for the course period and become familiar with writing strategies and habits that have helped academic writers.  The principles explored adapt across disciplines and the course has been taken successfully by writers in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Students who take the course are often at different stages -- proposal, prospectus, research, data analysis, drafting chapters, revising chapters, etc.