Aims
Writing publications in correct, clear, coherent and convincing language is a vital competence that can be acquired. In this hands-on workshop you develop that competence and generate submittable text through structured collaborative write - review - revise cycles.
Content
This series of three workshops, offers you the opportunity to try out which writing strategies suit you best. They expand the language you use to relate your research to existing knowledge; to describe processes, methods and data; to narrate change; and to construct cogent arguments. They familiarize you with current developments in academic style concerning, for example gender, the use of first person and passive. And they develop your competence to give and respond to peer feedback that improves drafts.
Methods / Tools
• When you start the workshop series, you should already have a first draft that you can turn into a submittable manuscript. A less ideal alternative is to start with data and/or a concept only. In the latter case, you can use the course to create a draft.
• You must submit an extract from, or written abstract for the text on which you want to work during the workshops at least a week before the first session, length: 250 to 600 words.
• At the start of the workshop series you will receive a manual that will familiarize you with various features of scholarly writing, such as those listed in the contents above.
• During the workshops you will analyze successful texts in your discipline and learn how to emulate their strengths in your own writing.
• The workshop meetings consist of short input sessions, followed by cycles of writing, reviewing and revising.
Target Group
All doctoral candidates of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
About the Trainer
Stephan Meyer: Lecturer for academic publication and presentation at the Language Center of the University of Basel.
Workload
Total: 90 hours
3 ECTS for preparing, writing, reviewing and revising.