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Now that I’ve been out of coursework for a bit, I’m thinking back to this super hectic time of semester for graduate students and (seminar) paper-writing, and I’m very grateful my profs allowed for more flexible and more genre-expansive end-of-term writing.
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What’d this look like?
**Syllabi
**Course assignments
**Teacher training curricula
**Book reviews
**Videos / podcasts
**Mock grant proposals
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**Syllabi
**Course assignments
**Teacher training curricula
**Book reviews
**Videos / podcasts
**Mock grant proposals
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I think it’s so important to be able to write, especially in end-of-term times, genres that are (a) flexible enough to be useful for future use, (b) docs that can be revised for job market purposes (if that’s your jam), and (c) things that are NOT seminar papers.
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Aside from seminar papers being a nebulous and IMO unhelpful genre, I’ve found grad curricula that exclusively prepares grads for research careers is unrealistic and dishonest.
Not all of us are going to land those jobs, so let’s not pretend that’s the case in coursework.
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Not all of us are going to land those jobs, so let’s not pretend that’s the case in coursework.
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