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Date(s) - 15/08/2022 - 19/08/2022
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ONLINE WRITING RETREAT WITH MATHEW STILLER-REEVE – 15th-19th August
IBA welcomes you to a 1-week online workshop on scientific writing!
This workshop is meant to provide a virtual space for us to meet up, learn and talk about our writing. We will meet and work online to widen participation and interaction across the IBA network.
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This is the first of two writing courses IBA will hold this autumn.
The focus of this workshop will be: writing skills and peer-to-peer collaboration for research (August 15th-19th).
The second course (December 12th – 16th) will focus on: planning and writing your IMRAD research article (December 12th-16th). Read more and sign up for the second course here.
You are welcome to participate in just one or both courses.
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Start date course 1: 15th August 09:00
Sign up with this link: https://nettskjema.no/a/272053
Deadline for sign up: 5th August
Open to all IBA members free of charge
See schedule under
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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 this online retreat/workshop 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 from Wednesday-Friday. 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 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
15th – 19th August
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
1200-1300: Lunch break
1300-1415: Individual group meetings + discussion
Thursday
0900-0945: Warm-up exercises
1000-1200: Shut-up-and-write session
1200-1300: Lunch break
1300-1415: Individual group meetings + discussion
Friday
0900-0945: Warm-up exercises
1000-1200: Shut-up-and-write session
1200-1300: Lunch break
1300-1415: Individual group meetings + discussion
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 Chris:
Mathew: mathew@stillerreeve.no, +47 99532473
Chris: chrishad@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 7 years in Uganda, Norway, Estonia, Austria as well as many other online workshops and events.]