MA Meet and Greet

December 17, 2014
On the agenda -- 
1) The Graduate Symposium.
2) The launching of an MA forum for discussion and communication. We will decide what format would best serve us for this purpose. Ideas are welcome.
3) The inauguration of a new MA tradition - monthly meetings devoted to promoting your graduate skill sets. The majority of these meetings will be devoted to writing. We will look at writing samples you provide and discuss what is effective and what is less so, how one can use rhetoric to promote an argument, how to write confidently and persuasively, and how to bolster your writing style in complementing your analytic skills. In addition, we can devote a meeting to speech and oral presentations (perhaps in preparation for the graduate symposium), to methods of coming up with a plan for writing a dissertation and seminar papers, to the location and use of secondary sources, and, if the group deems it appropriate, we can also discuss teaching skills and the demands of tutoring. 
4) Your comments, ideas, suggestions for the MA program - academic, social or otherwise.