Editing Your Academic Writing (Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences)

Prerequisites

The overall purpose of this half-day workshop is to help you improve your ability to edit your academic writing. To do this, it seeks to meet two objectives. For you to:

• Know the purpose, qualities or expectations of academic writing and know what editing is, why do it and how to do it.
• Apply this knowledge to think like a reader and make your work display the qualities of academic writing, by working on exercises in the 3 main areas of: content, form, language.

All PhD Students in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences
Further details regarding eligibility criteria are here

Participants are required to bring a draft of their academic work to practise the exercises

Number of sessions: 1

Please see the Learning Outcomes and Topics Covered under the course description for the course aims.

Participative workshop for 20, comprising information giving and activities

One half day session

Once/twice per term, depending on the course’s relevance during the academic year