This seminar is part of Writing Process Reengineering Week.

"To know whom to write for," said Virginia Woolf, "is to know how to write." As a scholar you are writing for other scholars whose thoughts you have access to through the literature. And you are writing for them is because they are qualified to help you think more carefully about things. To put it bluntly, they are qualified to tell you when you are wrong. During your doctoral education you should become increasingly comfortable with criticism, and your writing is one of the most important ways in which you open yourself to it. Good writing is open to criticism and this means that your prose has to have a certain kind of strength. You develop this through practice, one paragraph at a time.