Academic Writing Series 1 (six week course)

Target Group

All doctoral students, no matter at which stage of the PhD process.

Participants are required to attend all six modules.

Dates

The series takes place weekly on Fridays

October 13, October 20, October 27, November 3, November 10, November 17

Description

Academic success hinges upon your ability to clearly and effectively communicate your work to others. However, clear writing can sometimes be a messy process. This workshop series aims to declutter some of this mess by offering foundational knowledge on how to not only improve your writing, but the writing process as well. Additionally, we aim to equip participants with a veritable tool-box of concepts, skills, and methods they can apply when approaching the writing process. We will take a hands-on approach where participants will improve their writing skills through hands-on exercises, discussions with their peers, and homework assignments.

After completing all six modules of the workshop, participants will be able to

• Understand your own unique writing process and how to optimize it
• Increase writing productivity. 
• Understand the reader’s needs and expectations & learn how to adapt your writing to meet those expectations
• Find your own science narrative
• Increase the flow and cohesion of  your writing; structure academic manuscripts
• Write clearly and effectively in English by detecting and uprooting common writing mistakes.
• Improve clarity and focus.
• Revise and polish your work and give constructive edits to peers and students.

Modules

1. Process (13.10.) What is my writing process? Where do I get stuck? How can I increase my writing productivity?
2. Reader Based Writing & Storytelling (20.10.): Understanding your reader’s expectations improves writings efficacy. Additionally, we will work on harnessing the power of storytelling in our writing.  
3. Structure (27.10.) How do I structure academic texts? This session takes a hands on approach from going from a black page to an outline & first draft.  
4. Flow (3.11.) What can I do to make my prose as clear and concise as possible? Here we look at structure on a micro-scale. How can my ideas and sentences flow? Also we will examine some technical writing mistakes.
5. Self- & Peer review Part 1 (10.11.) How do I revise my own paper once it is complete? How can I offer constructive feedback to my peers?
6. Peer- Review Part 2 (17.11.)  Here we continue to work on revising the work of our peers and collecting feedback on our own written work.

  Participants are required to attend all six modules.

Facilitator

Laura Mahoni

Participants: min 6 -  max 12

Registration deadline: October 9, 2023

Registration:  here (please choose this course from the list that appears)

Cancellation Policy: read here