Develop your Academic Writing!
[2011-09-06] In this workshop Helen Sword will help us explore the elements that make for an engaging piece of academic writing, and you will be invited to test those principles against your own published and unpublished work. Helen Sword is Head of the Academic Practice Group in the Centre for Academic Development at the University of Auckland.
Pick up any guide to effective writing, and what will you find? Probably some advice like this: engage your reader’s attention through examples, use clear, precise language to express complex ideas; avoid jargon; vary your vocabulary, sentence length, and frames of reference, write with conviction, passion, and verve.
Pick up a peer-reviewed journal in just about any academic discipline, and what will you find? Impersonal, stodgy, jargon-laden prose that ignores or defies most if not all of the principles listed above.
Please bring along a draft sample of your own writing – for example, work-in-progress from an academic article or chapter.
Date: September 20
Time: 13.00-16.30
Place: MC343
Application to maria.wester@upc.umu.se no later than September 16. Maximum 25 participants.
Welcome!
Redaktör: Maria Wester
Tel: 7875
Adress till nyheten:
http://www.upc.umu.se/nyhet//.cid167460
