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Writing Effectively for Researchers - Writing Effective Paragraphs 2

Writing Effectively for Researchers - Writing Effective Paragraphs 2
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The Graduate Research School is offering five workshops that address common issues that have arisen based on supervisor feedback. Effective writing means writing succinctly, presenting a cohesive argument and avoiding common grammatical errors such as: lengthy paragraphs; using the wrong tenses; inefficient use of signposting, confusing the use of articles (a, the, an) and similar.

These five writing workshops have been designed for research students who have completed their confirmation of candidature (those working through stage 2 of their doctoral study plan). It is expected that participants will attend all five workshops to encourage the creation of a cohort that provides support to each other. The workshops will focus on writing that students are currently working on. This means that participants MUST BRING their own writing to the sessions, preferably writing that their supervisors have already commented on.

The five sessions will be structured as follows:

Session 1: Writing effective paragraphs (i); structuring your ideas - the paragraph as a micro-argument, presenting a main idea and sub ideas, and the sense of introducing general and specific ideas.

Session 2: Writing effective paragraphs (ii); moving your ideas around - writing effective sentences and transitioning from one idea to another.

Session 3: Writing effective sentences - wordiness; dealing with wordiness: sentence fragments, combined clauses, punctuation, getting to the point, etc.

Session 4: Tighthening up your writing; verb and subject agreement; reviewing the tenses in research writing and when to use them.

Session 5: What is ‘critical writing’; building up your knowledge base so you can respond to the ideas of researchers in your area by: (1) writing about the quality of the evidence and argument you have read, (2) identifying key positive and negative aspects in the research, (3) assessing relevance and usefulness to the debate that you are engaging in for your research, and (4) identifying how you can use these ideas in the research argument that you are developing.

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