Academic writing skills for doctoral candidates

Objectives:

The facilitator takes an 'outside in-' approach. The facilitator will start with the general conventions of academic writing and then look at the external structure - how to build a skeleton for your text. She will then move onto the internal structure - how to pack the meat onto the bones so that you eventually have a functioning body of text.

Monday
¿ Gaining and keeping momentum in writing
¿ Features of academic writing
¿ Audience and purpose
¿ Academic writing style
¿ Writing discussions and exercises
Tuesday
¿ External structure: Titles and headings
¿ External structure: The table of contents
¿ Writing introductory and concluding chapters
¿ Writing discussions and exercises Wednesday
¿ Writing the literature review
¿ Ethical writing practice: Plagiarism and referencing
¿ Developing you own academic voice
¿ Writing discussions and exercises
Thursday
¿ Internal coherence: Paragraphing
¿ Constructing an academic argument
¿ Writing discussions and exercises
Friday
¿ Unlocking the research report: Writing the abstract
¿ How to do self-revision and give peer feedback
¿ Writing discussions and exercises