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Emma Smith (Oxford): “Who Are We Writing For?”

Informal discussion and mentoring session for graduate students

Faculty Lounge, Fisher-Bennett Hall room 135

How does writing for “the general public” differ from writing for a scholarly community? What’s involved in reimagining your dissertation for a broader audience? What kinds of “public” writing can we engage in while continuing our work in scholarly journals? In this brown-bag lunchtime discussion, we will focus on issues of voice, community, genre, and multiple audiences, thinking both about ‘purely’ scholarly work and about applications of research for different publics (and asking whether this is, in fact, an either/or).