Fall 2025 marks a decade of CSU Writes supporting research writers across campus. We are deeply grateful to the thousands of writers who have participated in CSU Writes events, supported one another, and helped build a professional research writing community of excellence at CSU.
FALL 2026 TBA
Brief overview of webinars by series.
Semester-Long Series & Special Events
TBD | DATA Cohort: Dissertation And Thesis Accountability | Mondays, 12:30-2:30pm (12 sessions)
TBD | show up & write. drop-in writing sessions | Daily (times vary), see schedule here
TBD | sprint & write. drop-in timed writing sessions | Tuesdays, 10-11:30am (12 sessions)
Series 1: Power of Habit
TBD
Series 2: Smarter, Faster, Better
TBD
Series 3: Super Communicators
TBD
Series 4: Manuscripts
TBD
FALL 2026
Event Descriptions and Recordings
Learn more about the information, strategies, and advice to be covered in a webinar or seminar in the descriptions below.
Events are listed in chronological order.
Webinar recordings will be updated after the event.
Semester-Long Series
show up & write.
Daily, Times Vary (FALL DATES TBD)
Pencil in regular writing times to your schedule this semester to maintain momentum on your writing projects!
show up & write. drop-in writing sessions provide research, scholarly, and creative writers with daily writing sessions.
Semester-Long Series
DATA Cohort: Dissertation And Thesis Accountability
Mondays 12:30-2:30pm (FALL DATES TBD)
Available to all Master’s and Doctoral students at CSU, DATA is an interdisciplinary cohort designed to help build community and maintain progress on thesis and dissertation writing by facilitating space, time, and accountability support.
Each Monday, writers kick off the week by engaging with a supportive writing community to set writing goals, log progress, and share accomplishments to move their projects forward.
- 12:30 – 12:45pm – weekly goal setting, accomplishments reporting, and timely project discussions
- 12:45 – 2:30pm – optional writing session
Semester-Long Series
sprint & write.
Tuesdays 10-11:30AM (FALL DATES TBD)
Pencil in regular writing times to your schedule this semester to maintain momentum on your writing projects!
sprint & write. drop-in writing sessions provide research, scholarly, and creative writers with timed sessions (3 x 25-minute sprints) for focused and meaningful writing.
Semester-Long Series
W2P: Write to Publish Seminar
Mondays 3-3:50pm (FALL DATES TBD)
The Write to Publish (W2P) non-credit seminar is a 12-week series of webinars and writing labs designed to guide postdocs and graduate students through the process of crafting and polishing a manuscript for publication.
This series is best for participants who have already conducted research and have a conference presentation or course paper they wish to revise for publication.
The course is open to graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and CSU researchers.
Prior Webinars/Seminars & Series
SPRING 2026
The Power of Habit Series
- Where Will Your Writing Time Go This Semester?: Create a Realistic, Sustainable, and Satisfying Writing Plan
- From Pressure to Practice: Sustainable Writing Strategies
- Perfectionism & Procrastination: How to Work With (Not Against) Them
Smarter, Faster, Better Series
- Writing Research with GenAI Ethically: 8 Practical (Mostly Easy) Approaches
- Strategic Reading in an AI-Mediated Research Environment
- Write for Speed: Drafting, Editing, and Sustainability in an AI Era
Super Communicators Series
- Writing for Publication: Understanding the Scholarly Ecosystem
- The Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback: Advisors, Committees, and Reviewers
- Develop Distinctiveness in Writing: Style, Convention, and Choice
Manuscripts Series
- Reverse Outlines, Titles, and Abstracts: Small but Powerful
- ORCHID, Open Access, Copyright
- Literature Reviews: Types and Tips
- Openings, Conclusions, and “Sticking the Landing”: Make the Most of Your Manuscript’s “Prime Real Estate
- Submitting, Responding to Readers, & Post-Publication Promotion
FALL 2025
- The Power of Habit Series
- How to Get Started and Stay Inspired (when writing a thesis or dissertation)
- Make Writing a Habit
- What Strong Writers Do
- Smarter, Faster, Better Series
- Sprint and Review Techniques: Draft Quickly / Edit Slowly
- Design Your AI Professional Development Plan
- Reading for the Literature Review
- AI Resources for the Literature Review
- Reverse Outlining: Your Writing Superpower
- Super Communicators Series
- Writing for Publication: The Big Picture
- Quotable: How to Review and Edit Your Work for Impact
- Pitching Research with Meaning: 3MT, Job Market, and Beyond
SPRING 2025
- The Power of Habit Series
- Project Planning
- Writing with Ease
- Smarter, Faster, Better Series
- Write at Speed
- Reading, Notetaking, & Synthesizing for Lit Reviews
- Responsible AI for Research
- Super Communicators Series
- Tell a Captivating Research Story
- Mastering the Art of Citing with Ease (Zotero)
- Your Writing Style
- Punctuation workshop
FALL 2024
SPRING 2024
FALL 2023
SPRING 2023
FALL 2022
SPRING 2022
- Fresh Start: Scheduling Tools
- Literature Review
- Writing for Publication
- Abstracts
- Write for Speed I and II
- Reverse Outlining
- Getting and Using Feedback
- Summary/Paraphrase
- Punctuation
- Overcome Writing Stalls
- Engaging Audiences
- Passive/Active Voice
FALL 2021
- Schedule to Prioritize Writing
- Deal with Inner Writing Critics
- Summarize & Paraphrase & Avoid Plagiarizing
- Literature Review
- Abstracts
- Productivity & Well-Being
- How to Prepare to Write
- Edit for Clarity: Top 3 Sentence Issues
- EDT Info Session (with Graduate School and Library experts)
- Write for Speed
SPRING 2021
- Schedule to Prioritize Writing
- Writing for Publication
- Summarize & Paraphrase & Avoid Plagiarizing
- Literature Review
- Write Concisely with the Writer’s Diet
- Citation Management Software
- How to Prepare to Write
- Edit for Clarity: Top 3 Sentence Issues
- EDT Info Session (with Graduate School and Library experts)
- Write for Speed
- Writing Your Teaching Philosophy
FALL 2020
- Schedule to Prioritize Writing
- Summarize & Paraphrase & Avoid Plagiarizing
- Literature Review
- Productivity & Well-Being
- How to Punctuate (with Stephanie G’Schwind)
- Edit for Clarity
- Edit for Flow
- EDT Info Session (with Graduate School and Library experts)
- Write for Speed
SPRING 2020
- The Magic Writing Workshop
- Habits that Build & Sustain Writing Momentum
- Writing for Publication
- Productivity & Well-Being
- ETD (Electronic Thesis & Dissertation) Information Session
- Create Your “Shelter in Place” Research Writing Action Plan
HOW TO SERIES:
- Edit for Flow (organization & development)
- Edit for Wordiness (sentence-level editing for clarity & concision)
- The Literature Review: How to Prepare & Organize
- How to Punctuate
- Passive Voice: When & When Not to Use
SPECIAL PROGRAMS
Construction Management/School of Education Workshop Series: The NUTS & BOLTS OF WRITING IN GRADUATE SCHOOL
- Writing as Construction
- Frame & Connect
- Engineering Sentences
- Clarity & ReVision
