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Writing up for publication: concentrated academic-writing retreat GFOK085
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Number of credits: 3 HEC Number of participants: 14 Aim The aim is to improve your critical reading and writing skills of scientific and professional written genres (research articles, conference papers, theses). In this course, we focus on ‘getting the message across’ as smoothly as we possibly can. This means that we work with holistic coherence as well as coherence within sections. We also concentrate on how best to organize information especially at the front end and the back end of the text. The course gives you the opportunities to apply a new way of approaching your writing and your text. You will receive ample feedback from your peers and from the instructor. By the end of the course, you should hopefully have a complete (more or less) draft. Intended learning outcome On completion of the course, you should be able to: - read and assess academic texts ‘differently’ (from the perspective of your intended reader - identify, critically evaluate and select relevant strategies for academic texts - review academic texts and provide constructive feedback - develop a full academic paper through various revision loops - recognise and prioritise reviewers' comments and how to respond - experience and apply writing as a tool for thinking, which can also be used in supervision of undergraduate theses and report writing. Admission requirements - You must attend all three days. - To be enrolled on the course, you must submit a rough draft of the paper you intend to work on during the course approx. 4 weeks before course start (the deadline is indicated in your letter of acceptance). - The draft must be a work-in-progress draft. Neither a published article nor a submitted one is allowed! Instructions for submitting the draft The draft needs to be to have a focused aim and research question/s or hypotheses, a clear indication of theoretical frame and/or method, and initial results (not necessarily all of them). The discussion and/or conclusions do not need be completely developed, but you should be able to indicate how you would want to develop this part of your paper. Note: the draft must have a title, name of author/s and an abstract. Note: from the time you submit the draft and the start of the course, you will be able to continue working on the paper and submit a revised version about a week or so before course start. For the course, all the participants will be sorted in smaller peer-response groups (3 or 4 per group). You are expected to read the papers of your peers so you can give each other constructive feedback. At the end of the three-day course, you will have a much-improved draft! Note that if you need to cancel your seat in the course, please do that in time before the deadline for submission. Late cancellations will entail that your department will be charged for your attendance. Content Overall, the focus is on getting the message across coherently, which entails understanding the intricacies of information structure as well as the underlying logic of the different parts of a scientific paper and how they hang together. The following topics will be covered: - writing a research article: formal aspects, disciplinary and rhetorical conventions, linguistic and pragmatic choices - providing and receiving peer response - discussion of interdisciplinary dilemmas - the logic of the sections of an article, ie title, author line, abstract, introduction, method, results, discussion and conclusion and alignment between front end and back end - other topics that may arise during the course. Running schedule Three days of writing: theoretical sessions, peer group work and alone-time revision Course leader and examiner Prof. Christine Räisänen Language English Björk, L. & Räisänen, C. 2003. Academic Writing. Studentlitteratur Connection to other GTS courses Early stage: GFOK080 Introduction to writing for publication Advanced: GFOK085 Writing up for publication alternatively GFOK035 Academic writing Assessment Compulsory attendance all three full days. To be awarded credits for the course, participant should have submitted a draft and worked actively on improving the draft during the course (a learning-by-doing approach). *** - Stand-by list means that the course is fully booked but you may be offered a seat if one becomes available. In this case a notification will be sent to you. - Cancellation rules: Please note that for this course cancellations of an ordinary seat must be done before the deadline expires. After the deadline you should send email to genericskills@chalmers.se. - You may register to 1 ordinary seat and 1 stand-by seat. |
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