Online Writing Retreat with Mathew Stiller-Reeve (registration closed)

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Date(s) - 20/04/2020 - 24/04/2020
9:00 am - 12:00 pm

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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 during these unconventional times. Join in to learn about writing, to get motivated and to socialize.

Start date: April 20th – 09:00

Sign up with this link: https://nettskjema.no/a/146363

Deadline for sign up: Wednesday 15th

About the course

 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

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.

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

20th– 24th April

Monday                  

0900-1100:               Welcome, active voice and cutting the clutter.

Tuesday                 

0900-0930:                Warm-up exercises

0930-1015:                Structure + flow

1015-1030:                Introduction to Shut-up-and-write sessions

Wednesday           

0900-0930:                Warm-up exercises

0930-1130:                Shut-up-and-write session

1130-1200:                Feedback discussion

 Thursday               

0900-1030:               Warm-up exercises and discussion/questions

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1300-1400:               Individual group meetings

 Friday                     

0900-0930:                Warm-up exercises

0930-1130:                Shut-up-and-write session

1130-1200:                Feedback discussion and evaluation

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.