NUBS Academic Writing Workshop

Title: NUBS Academic Writing Workshop on Structure and Storytelling

Guest Speaker: Tanvi Mehta of Mehta-Text

Dates: 09, 10, 11 and 13 May 2022
Time: 09:00 – 15:00  (break 10:15 – 10:45 & lunch 12:00 – 13:30)

This interactive writing workshop is for any NUBS academic staff interested in improving their writing skills for publishing in academic journals. You will need to bring a laptop and a draft article that you are working on.

There will be a mix of lecture time as well as hands-on application of new concepts.

Learning Outcomes
By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to:
– Write more cohesive papers
– Identify problems of structure and reasoning
– Lead teams of co-authors
– Advance their skill set from subject knowledge experts to critical thinking experts
– Give good, useful and constructive feedback to colleagues and students
– Write more confidently with a toolset in hand

Schedule

	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4
9 am to 10:15 am	Storytelling in Academic Writing: Why Science Hates it	Structure: What is it?	Paragraph: The Bedrock of Academic Writing	Linking Ideas Sentence level architecture (1)
BREAK
10:45 am to 12 pm	Using Storytelling Models for Cohesive Writing	Structure: Using the Reverse Outline	Yes, Paragraphs Have Structures Too!	Linking Ideas Sentence level architecture (2)
LUNCH
1:30 pm to 3 pm	Workshopping: Storying Opens Creative Possibilities for Structure	Workshopping: Applying the reverse outline to each other’s work	Workshopping: Structuring each other’s paragraphs	Workshopping: Whipping into shape each other’s sentences

If you would like to attend, please register at https://forms.ncl.ac.uk/view.php?id=14062848.

Limited to 12 participants (max.)

Participants are recommended to attend all 4 days.