Smoothening your writing process (for PhD students)

Writing academic papers, proposals, or thesis chapters is not easy but good strategies will help you make your writing process more smooth and efficient. This course will focus on the writing process. It is not an English language course.

Description

The secret ingredient of an effective writing process is ‘segmentation’: perform activities such as outlining, writing, revising, and editing, one by one. This will make each of them a lot easier and more doable.

In this course you will work on your own proposal, article, or thesis chapter. We will organise information, instructions and (peer) feedback. You will get ample opportunity to practise strategies for tackling the process, such as effective outlining, speed writing a first draft and goal-directed step-by-step revision. By critical reflection on which of these tools you find helpful and why, you will find out how to best make the writing process work for you as a person. Along this, we will always pay attention to the structure and the strength of what you are writing and how to best ask for useful feedback from your peers and supervisors.

PhD students from all disciplines who have a paper, proposal, or chapter to work on during the period of the course (>9 months underway in your PhD trajectory)

5 meetings of 2,5 hours, 30 minutes for your individual questions and 24 hours of self-study

Book: Jong, J. de (2017). Effective Strategies for Academic Writing. Bussum: Coutinho

PhD Students of Utrecht University can participate at a reduced rate. Oftentimes, your graduate school will reimburse these costs. Please get in touch with them to get more information.

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We also provide this course incompany, and customized if desired. Are you curious about the possibilities? Please contact us. We are happy to think along with you.

Do you have an (educational) question, or are you curious about in-company and customisation options? We would be happy to explore the possibilities with you.

Please contact us via:
onderwijsadviesentraining@uu.nl
030 253 2261

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