Title

Getting Organized: A Pragmatic Tool for Writing Graduate Papers

Document Type

Article

Comments

Originally published in The Journal of Graduate Teaching Assistant Development, vol. 7, no. 1, Pp. 5-17, 1999.

Abstract

This article describes the contents of a successful Teaching Assistant workshop. The workshop introduces the "Notebook Method" of writing scholarly papers. The notebook method is viewed as a pragmatic tool of inquiry. It transforms writing a paper into managing a project. The project management aspects of writing a thesis or dissertation are emphasized. In addition, the method is linked to the pragmatic theory of inquiry developed by Charles Sander Peirce and John Dewey.