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The program at a glance
From Friday 29th May, ATTR and RVS will hold a 2-week (except Wednesdays and Thursdays) online writing retreat in collaboration with Mathew Stiller-Reeve (PhD). The retreat will provide a virtual space for ATTR and RVS members to meet up, learn and discuss writing. This virtual space will be packed with useful activities like:
- Lectures on writing skills
- Brain warm-up exercises
- Shut-up-and-write sessions
- Small discussion group meetings
All activities will take place on Zoom so please make sure you’ve signed up to the free version (at least).
More about the course:
The instructor
Mathew Stiller-Reeve has a PhD in Meteorology and has published several peer-reviewed articles on the monsoon as well as interdisciplinary and communication issues. He founded the SciSnack writing group community in 2012 and helped start several writing groups around the world. He and 12 international co-authors published their collaborative writing process in 2016, and since then it has been used by summer schools and communication initiatives around the world. Recently, he has become a Thematic Editor of the Geoscience Communication journal and has developed a peer-review process that he recently published on Nature.com. He has held writing seminars and courses over the past 4 years, both in Norway and internationally. Mathew puts emphasis on how we apply basic writing skills to our academic writing, and not least, how we can improve our writing together!
The schedule
We will begin with some lectures on basic writing skills. These skills are very important to our academic writing! We will continue the virtual writing retreat with new exercises for you to discuss together in the brain warm-up sessions including smaller online discussion groups. We will also have several 2-hour “shut-up-and-write” sessions after which we’ll get together and discuss progress.
Just like a “normal” writing retreat, participants will also have time to work on their own texts/articles/essays. Hopefully you are working on or planning something that you can bring to the seminar. If you are not writing anything specific, don’t worry! Mathew will work with you to ensure that you can put his tips and advice into action.
ALL ACTIVITIES ACCESSED VIA ZOOM-LINK TO BE PROVIDED
Friday May 29th
0930-1115: Welcome. Lecture on structure + flow
1330-1500: Group exercises and discussion: structure + flow
Monday June 1st (Voluntary!)
0930-1045: Morning coffee and discussion exercise on structure + flow
Tuesday June 2nd
0930-1100: Lecture and discussion on active voice and clutter
1100-1300: Shut-up-and-write session
1300-1315: Short feedback discussion
1400-1515: Group exercises and discussion: active voice + clutter
Wednesday June 3rd
Individual writing day
Thursday June 4th
Individual writing day
Friday June 5th
0930-1030: Warm-up exercises: active voice/clutter
1030-1230: Shut-up-and-write session
1230-1300: Feedback discussion + flow/title assignment
1400-1515: Individual group meetings + discussion
Week 2:
Monday June 8th
0930-1030: Warm-up exercise: titles
1030-1230: Shut-up-and-write session
1230-1300: Feedback discussion
1400-1515: Individual group meetings + discussion
Tuesday June 9th
0930-1030: Warm-up exercise: flow
1030-1230: Shut-up-and-write session
1230-1300: Feedback discussion
1400-1515: Individual group meetings + short lecture on peer-review
Wednesday June 10th
Individual writing day
Thursday June 11th
Individual writing day
Friday June 12th
0930-1030: Warm-up exercise: peer review
1030-1230: Shut-up-and-write session
1230-1300: Feedback discussion
1400-1530: Individual group meetings + discussion/evaluation
Contact
If you have any questions, queries or suggestions, then do not hesitate to get in touch with Leonora at ATTR, or Geir at RVS about the event or Mathew about the content of the seminars.
Leonora: leonora.bergsjo@teologi.uio.no
Geir: geir.afdal@mf.no
Mathew: mathew@stillerreeve.no, +47 99532473