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Date(s) - 12/04/2021 - 16/04/2021
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ONLINE WRITING RETREAT (Spring 2021) WITH MATHEW STILLER-REEVE – 12th-16th April
IBA welcomes you to a 1-week online workshop on scientific writing! This course is meant to provide a virtual space to meet up, learn and talk about your writing. This course will be online to widen participation and interaction across the IBA network (and partly because of COVID).
Start date: April 12th – 09:00
Sign up with this link: https://nettskjema.no/a/187810
Deadline for sign up: Wednesday March 17th
Open to all IBA members free of charge
See schedule under
Activities include:
- Lectures on basic writing skills and how to give constructive feedback
- Morning warm-up sessions with online discussion groups
- “Shut up and write” sessions
- Group work with discussion and feedback
About the course:
We all need to write in science! We therefore have something very important in common no matter what we research. With this in mind, this course is founded upon ideas of collaborative learning. If we have a common basis of knowledge, then we can work together to improve all our writing and communication skills.
We will begin the retreat with some lectures on basic writing skills that are very important to our academic writing. We will continue with daily warm-up sessions including smaller online discussion groups. “Shut-up-and-write” sessions will take place for 2 hours twice during the week. Each session will be followed by a group discussion on what we achieved and what we found challenging.
The course is perfect if you are working on your thesis introduction (“kappe”), an article, a poster, a proposal or a scientific blogpost. However, you are welcome to join even if you are not actively writing at the moment. You are also very welcome to join this online retreat again even if you have previously attended.
All activities will take place on Zoom so please make sure you’ve signed up to the free version (at least). Many of you will have access to Zoom through your University.
Schedule
12th-16th April
Monday
0900-0945: Introduction
1000-1045: Cutting Clutter
1100-1145: Active and passive voices
Tuesday
0900-0945: Warm-up exercises
1000-1045: Structure + flow
1100-1145: Discussion + Introduction to Shut-up-and-write sessions
Wednesday
0900-0945: Warm-up exercises
1000-1200: Shut-up-and-write session
1215-1300: Feedback discussion
Thursday
0900-0945: Warm-up exercises
1000-1045: Discussion and questions
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1300-1400: Individual group meetings
Friday
0900-0945: Warm-up exercises
1000-1200: Shut-up-and-write session
1215-1330: Feedback discussion and ways forward
Location
Online through Zoom. Links will be sent out by e-mail.
Contact
If you have any questions, queries or suggestions, then do not hesitate to get in touch with Mathew or Tina:
Mathew: mathew@stillerreeve.no, +47 99532473
Tina: tina.svingerud@ibv.uio.no
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 community in 2012 when he developed a collaborative writing process and helped start several writing groups around the world. He and 12 international co-authors published this 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 3 years, both in Uganda and Norway.