RDO Writing Support
Writing support during your Research Degree
RD Online Writing Programme Summer 2023
| 07/06/23 |
10.00-11.30 |
Writing an article for publication |
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| 07/06/23 |
13.00-14.30 |
Writing conference papers |
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| 13/06/23 |
11.30-13.00 |
Dealing with (publication) rejection |
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| 13/06/23 |
14.00-15.30 |
Writing Proposals & Abstracts |
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| 28/06/23 |
10.30-12.00 |
Writing conference papers |
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| 28/06/23 |
13.30-15.00 |
Advanced Writing: How to Edit Effectively |
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| 06/07/23 |
13:00- 14.30 |
Beating Writer's Block with Creative Writing |
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| 10/07/23 |
10.00-11.30 |
Get your Writing Organised - Stage 1: storyboards |
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| 10/07/23 |
12.30-14.00 |
Get your Writing Organised - Stage 2: signposting & mapping |
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| 12/07/23 |
10.00-11.30 |
Punctuation and grammar: an overview |
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| 12/07/23 |
12.30-14.00 |
Writing Proposals & Abstracts |
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| 13/07/23 |
10.00-11.30 |
Writing for social media |
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| 13/07/23 |
13.00-14.30 |
Writing for non-academic audiences |
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| 19/07/23 |
10.30-12.00 |
Writing an article for publication |
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| 19/07/23 |
13.00-14.30 |
Advanced Writing: How to Edit Effectively |
Researcher Development Online Writing Support
You are a specialist in your field. But do you still find yourself getting stuck or frustrated when you try to write about it? Whether you are from a Science or Humanities background we offer sessions to ensure your writing is as effective as your research.
The sessions range from starting out and challenges with grammar, to writing bids and grant applications.
PhD in Second LanguageA PhD is challenging. Doing it in another language makes it more so.
The PiSL series is designed to support you with many aspects of the process. We cover writing and speaking, reading and presenting. We discuss how we network and create connections. We also discuss the vagaries of undertaking research in the UK, strange British habits and accents, the words that mean something entirely different and trip us up every time.
The sessions are run by a Warwick PhD and lecturer, who still occasionally struggles to find the correct English word.
Top Tips
Orwell sums up:
1. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do it
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. ( Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous)
George Orwell Politics and the English Language pp348-360 in George Orwell Essays 2000) Penguin ClassicsWriting Resources
Referencing Style Guide University of Warwick
6 Minute Grammar Podcasts
Write that journal article in seven days ( Thesis Whisperer)
Pat Thompson Blog and Twitter @ThomsonPat
Writing Advice from University of Toronto
POWA Paradigm Online Writing Advice
Learning English for Academic Purposes LEAP
Further support across Warwick
In addition to the support from the RDO and the PhD in Second language, you may find these resources useful:
Write Right : Academic Writing Moodle (this is for resource only as the course has now been archived and no longer monitored but contains useful info)
PGCTSS: for Science, Engineering & Medicine PGRs you can take nine week assessed modules
English for Academic Purpose in sessional English Language support and writing surgeries for International PGRs
Centre for Linguistics offer support. There is an additional cost to you for this course
The Academic Skills Moodle. A resource for UG & PGT but might have something useful
Critical Writing - An introduction to the principles of Critical Writing
Return to the Researcher Development Online page.