Making the Grade - Reimagining the Graduate Seminar Essay in Literary Studies

This book is a great resource for new graduate students interested in knowing how to navigate their studies more effectively and creatively.

List of contents

Introduction: The Graduate Classroom Staple
Kevin A. Morrison
Part One: The Seminar Paper: History, Conception, Experience
1. Essaying Assessment and Assessing the Essay: The Graduate Seminar Paper as Disciplinary Performance
Phil Robinson-Self
2. The Cost of Ambiguity: How Students Experience the Graduate Seminar Paper Genre
Gabriel Morrison and Thomas Deans
Part Two: Argument, Ethos, 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 in English Studies
Elizabeth Vogel
5. A Scaffold for Scholarship: Re-vising the Seminar Writing Assignment
Janet G. Auten
Part Three: 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
Part Four: New Directions, 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
Coda: Demystifying the Seminar Paper
Jessie Reeder

About the author

Edited by Kevin A. Morrison

Product details

• Authors: Kevin A. Morrison
• Assisted by: Kevin A. Morrison (Editor), Morrison Kevin A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.06.2021
• EAN: 9781475856385
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-5638-5
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; EDUCATION / Evaluation & Assessment, Teaching skills & techniques, Higher & further education, tertiary education, Education: examinations & assessment, Examinations & assessment, EDUCATION / Teaching / General, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher