WAC Events
Faculty Workshop Series, Becoming a Better Writer
Instructor:
Roger Graves Director, Writing Across the Curriculum Associate Director, Centre for Teaching and Learning Professor, English and Film Studies
Focus: Genre, audience, style and story
This series of workshops will help you develop your skills as a writer of academic prose. We'll develop skills in different styles of writing (asiatic/attic, ornamental/plain), different genres of writing (academic/workplace), and different audiences for writing (academic/non-specialist). We'll end with a consideration of the recent interest in narrative ("our story") and how this contrasts with scientific approaches to writing (research as story).
The workshop is open to all full-time, continuing academic staff.
Story, science, and simplicity: Writing for the non-specialist audience
Workshop 5 of Faculty Workshop Series, Becoming a Better Writer
March 26, 2020 (2:30 PM - 3:30 PM)
Cameron Library Basement B-12
In this workshop we’ll review ideas discussed in previous sessions, including plain or low styles of writing, readers and the strategies they use to make meaning from written texts, and techniques for writing clearly. We’ll then enlist those tools in the campaign to raise public awareness of scholarship and research through mainstream newspapers, web outlets such as The Conversation, and in public gatherings.