Academic Writing, Made Stylish write clearly, with compelling prose that appeals to your audience
Write A Successful Paperthis workshop focuses on writing research papers that editors want to publish
Creating Narratives About Your Researchusing screenwriting techniques to craft impactful narratives about your research
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All courses facilitated by Chris Simms FHEA, Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow, published author. These courses may run in-person or online. Please the CPD-Training listing for the specific offering.
our half-day retreats are intended to give you over 2.5 hours of strutctured time to work on your writing or research outputs.
Through guided discussion, practical exercises and small group activities, this workshop will help you adopt the techniques of those who write with elegance, whatever their discipline.
This half-day (3-hour) session opens with an overall view of what distinguishes academic writing. It then offers a variety of ways to inject style into your prose – and how to avoid the traps into which many academic writers stumble. Full of practical activities and guided discussion, the session involves bringing along a sample of your own writing to analyse from several perspectives.
Writing a publishable paper involves understanding what will entice editors, reviewers and your target readers. This workshop considers how to do that. It will offer ‘hands on’ techniques and strategies, applied to your own work, to inspire you to plan and manage the successful writing of a research paper.
This half-day session starts by encouraging you to consider how your own research meets the criteria of significance, originality and rigour. It then examines the part those elements play in papers which deliver on consistency, authority and persuasiveness. There will also be time to compare and contrast components such as titles, abstracts and conclusions.
These are a series of three 3-hour writing retreats, approximately a fortnight apart. These sessions will support you as you work on a writing piece, providing you with structured writing time, as well as opporotunities to exhange ideas with and gain feedback from fellow writers .
By using screenwriting techniques to de-mystify what storytelling is, this workshop will help you identify the message at the heart of your writing, while offering simple ways to develop a clear, coherent and compelling writing style.
Taking inspiration from the worlds of fiction and film, this half-day (3-hour) session will show you how to apply storytelling techniques to your own academic writing, including CVs and funding applications. At times light-hearted, but always thought-provoking, there will be ample opportunity to think about framing your research in an engaging way – then structuring your piece so the reader is smoothly carried to your conclusion.
Half-day (3-hour) sessions of structured productivity time. You will briefly be asked to set a goal for the session for us to help you keep accountable, and then the time is yours.
We'll be using a modified pomodoro technique (25 min productivity sessions + short breaks).
You'll have an opportunity to check with fellow writers for quick support.