Academic writing
Purpose
The purpose of the workshop is to inspire and qualify the PhD student's writing processes, which have a crucial role and importance for PhD courses and dissertations. Without writing, there is no PhD dissertation. Writing is therefore a crucial and fundamental practice, a tool for thinking and communication.
This workshop will focus on three themes:
- to introduce a theory-informed understanding of writing and the processes and dynamics of writing.
- to outline and discuss the different formats of the thesis: monograph and article-based, assessed from a writing perspective.
- to allow participants to practice a number of specific writing techniques based on their own dissertation material.
Content
The day's programme will include the following components:
- introduce a theory-based understanding of writing, its processes, dynamics and actions
- what characterizes a thesis as text - academic and scientific writing and the different genres for dissertation: monograph and article-based assessed, from a writing perspective
- focused writing exercises based on participants' thesis material: the participants are asked to bring either a data extract, a theory section or concept part, or part of a chapter they are working on. In the workshop, the participants work in a focused fashion on three speed-writing exercises to write different text types. This facilitates various forms of acknowledgement and knowledge processing, and also creates tangible products
Participants
PhD students at all stages of their PhD process, who wish to attain renewed insight and inspiration for their writing.
Literature
When signing up, participants will be given access to inspiration material.
Teacher
Linda Lundgaard Andersen, lla(at)ruc.dk , Professor, PhD - Head of the PhD School of Lifelong Learning and Social Psychology of Everyday Life. For many years, Linda has been interested in writing as a means of acknowledgement and as a practical process and a tool, both in her own research and for supervision and collaboration with PhD students. She has conducted national and international workshops on this topic.