Date: 5-13 May 2020

Time: 10 AM - 12 PM

Facilitator: Dr Terry Royce

Suitable for second year students.

UTS is undertaking a number of social distancing initiatives informed by NSW Health. In view of the advice that internal gatherings should be limited, we are not able to run face-to-face workshops as scheduled. Therefore, most
GRS workshops will be offered remotely as a webinar via Zoom.

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4. Enter the meeting ID into the text box. Select ‘Join’.

5. You will enter the meeting when the Zoom application launches.

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It is expected that participants will attend all five workshops to encourage the creation of a cohort that provides support to each other.

Writing Effectively for Researchers consists of 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.

Writing Effectively Workshop 1: Writing Effective Paragraphs (part 1) - 5 May

https://zoom.uts.edu.au/j/804403576

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.

Writing Effectively Workshop 2: Writing Effective Paragraphs (part 2) - 6 May

https://zoom.uts.edu.au/j/368937114

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.

Writing Effectively Workshop 3: Writing Effective Sentences: Wordiness - 12 May

https://zoom.uts.edu.au/j/424423881

Dealing with wordiness: sentence fragments, combined clauses, punctuation, getting to the point, etc.

Writing Effectively Workshop 4: Tightening up your Writing - 13 May

https://zoom.uts.edu.au/j/397401374

Verb and subject agreement; reviewing the tenses in research writing and when to use them.

Writing Effectively Workshop 5: What is Critical Writing? - 14 May

https://zoom.uts.edu.au/j/339035816

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.