Writing Retreats Through a Professional Development Lens

They can serve as sites for cultivating transferable skills that grad students and postdocs need to be successful in a variety of careers, writes Katie Homar.

“Writing retreats provide space for practicing other transferable skills identified by the Council of Graduate Schools, such as data literacy, analytics and scholarly ethics. For example, a writer who uses the retreat to annotate sources for a literature review and to organize an outline develops analytical skills in addition to making progress on a paper.”