The purpose of the Intensive Writing Experience is to give doctoral students in good standing with their programs time to write or to revise their dissertations with support from Writing Lab staff. Participants will receive some writing instruction and support from Writing Lab staff, will spend significant time writing or revising their dissertations, and will network with other dissertation writers on campus. Intensive Writing Experiences are focused around three stages of the dissertation process: Getting Started, Drafting, and Revising.

Spring 2019 Schedule

Please fill out page 2 of this form and bring a printed copy to the Lab or email the completed form to WritingLabGrad@purdue.edu.

Getting Started: This session is for writers just beginning their dissertation. Writers must have less than one chapter currently drafted. In fields where the dissertation is a compilation of previously-written material, writers should not yet have started the compilation process. 

Drafting: This session is for writers who are actively writing a draft of the dissertation and want to learn skills that will help with the writing itself. 

Revising: This session is for writers who have at least 75% of the document written and who are working on revising what they have previously written.