About the Blog

Write with Me: a blog written by graduate students for graduate students. 


As a way to develop community and provide you with important considerations for writing as a graduate student, we will come out with a blog post written by numerous guest graduate writers from the Howe Writing Center each week. This blog will feature a highlight of the week, celebrating the accomplishments of our community and special topics which dive into the considerations of what it means to write in academia as a graduate student.

The Blog will also feature research-based but narrative-driven investigations into the topics of  How(e) to Begin during weeks 1-4, How(e) to Draft during weeks 5-8,  and How(e) to Revise during weeks 9-11. These weekly posts will encompass various voices and positions on the multitude of topics available to each writer in each segment.

While these blogs will be based in the world of academia, they are not more research articles for you to read– instead, they will focus on the human aspect of writing and all the things that enclose these topics– we will discuss things like the emotional toll writing can take on its composer, procrastination stories, writing projects that resulted in an indifferent writer, embodied writing, writing in community, individual writing processes and so much more!   

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