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    PhD Symposium - Into the academic Werkstatt - the craft of writing and preparing for publication

    October 6 - October 7

    PhD symposium Fall 2022: Into the academic Werkstatt: the craft of writing and preparing for publication.

    Organizer(s): Sisse Finken, Associate professor, Head of PhD School, the ITU

    Lecturer(s)
    Mirjam Godskesen, PhD. Consultant, Researcher, Coach, Part-time lecturer at AAU
    Liv Gish, PhD. Consultant, Researcher and coach, Nordic Writing Academy

    Date(s) of the course: October 6-7 2022

    Deadline for registration:
    The course is oversubscribed. If you want to be registered on a waiting list, please write to phdsupport@itu.dk
    .
    The PhD school supports sustainable thinking, so: please notify PhD Support within the final deadline of notification/cancellation on Tuesday August 2nd 2022. With such notification, the number of reservations equals participation, whereby we, hopefully, partake in minimizing waste of resources.

    Time
    As of now the estimated departure time is 9:00 October 6th – 16:45 October 7th 2022.

    We meet at 8:45 in front of the ITU (by the main entrance). 

    Location
    Skjoldenæsholm Hotel og Konferencecenter

    Course description
    The symposium is interdisciplinary in focus and cater to PhD-students in all stages of their studies, from newly enrolled to graduates.  The symposium concentrates on the writing process and preparing academic work for publication whether it concerns scientific articles or PhD dissertations, herein monographs or kappas of article-based PhD dissertations.
    The aim with the symposium is to train PhD-students’ skills in the academic craftwork of writing, establishing productive writing habits and, in this, to train their skills de-coding the (often) unarticulated, yet established, codes in publications, which underpin the process of writing.

    The symposium is hands-on based and includes lectures, exercises, individual writing sessions, peer-feedback, and plenum discussions.  The program is composed with the purpose for PhD-students to actively engage with their own and peer’s work in relation to the theoretical parts of the symposium.

    PhD students are asked to bring a text in progress and to locate three examples of published work (e.g. articles and/or introductions to PhD dissertations).  For further details see below ‘Preparation for the symposium’.

    Evaluation: Upon completion, attending PhD students are invited to evaluate the symposium.

    Learning outcome:

    Having completed the full symposium successfully, PhD students will:

    • Be knowledgeable of the academic craftwork of writing
    • Be able to analyze embedded codes in publications
    • Be able to account for and use different techniques that can aid the process of writing
    • Be able to explicitly define your criteria for a good text and evaluate the quality 
    • Be able to give and receive feedback in an effective and structured way
    • Be able to use different techniques when you revise your texts

    Programme

     

    Programme

    Day 1
    With the purpose of advancing the process disseminating written academic work, the symposium serves to further writing skills by way of bringing awareness to the very craftwork of academics.  Upon arrival, and after a short introduction to the symposium by Sisse Finken, Mirjam Godskesen opens with a lecture on different aspects of writing. After one hour you will be writing on your own text (work in progress brought along to the symposium). In the afternoon focus will be on storytelling facilitated by both Liv Gish and Mirjam. In small groups you will help each other make the story in your text clear and there will be time to implement the changes in your own text. We end the day with Journal analysis by Liv.

    Day 2
    Mirjam opens the day with a session on ‘what is a good text’. It is very important that you prepare for this session, see below ‘Preparation for the symposium’ 2. The next topic is peer-feedback facilitated by both Liv and Mirjam. You will share pieces of the text you have written and give each other feedback in smaller groups After lunch Liv will introduce tools to support text revision and there will be time to write on or revise your own text.
     

    Day 1 – Thursday, October 6th
    09:00-10:00 Leaving the ITU by bus to Skjoldenæsholm
    10:00-10:30 Arrival and coffee. Introduction to the symposium (Sisse Finken)
    10:30-12:15 Introduction to writing challenges and tools + writing on own text (Mirjam Godskesen)
    12:15-13:15 Lunch
    13:15-14:30 The power of storytelling including IMRAD. (Mirjam Godskesen & Liv Gish)
    14:30-15:15 Coffee & tea break and time for a walk/Check-in
    15:15-16:15 Writing or structuring your own text based on the storytelling exercise (Mirjam & Liv)
    16:15-16:30 Short break
    16:30-17:30 Rhetorical reading – what is a good text? Group exercise based on the introductions you brought with you (Mirjam Godskesen)
    Time to relax, check email, socialize or take another walk
    18:30-20:00 Dinner
    20:00- Socializing (events organized by ITU PhD students? If you want to be in organizing, please contact Sisse)

    Day 2 – Friday October 7th
    08:00-09:00 Breakfast & check-out
    09:00-10:00 Journal analysis; Presentation and individual exercise (Liv Gish) 
    10:00-10:15 Coffee & tea break
    10:15-12:00 Peer-feedback, asking for and giving feedback in small groups (Liv & Mirjam)
    12:00-13:00 Lunch
    13:00-14:30 Tools to support text revision and time for last writing or revision of own text (Liv Gish)
    14:30-14:45 Coffee & tea
    14:45-15:45 Bus travel to the ITU

    Prerequisites
    To attend, you must be a PhD student enrolled at the IT University

    Exam
    2 pages reflection note on the topic of the symposium ‘
    The craft of writing and preparing for publication’ with emphasis on aspects you find relevant for your work and how they are relevant. The reflection note is approved by Sisse Finken and must be submitted to her no later than October 24th 2022.

    Credits
    2 ECTS for full attendance

    Amount of hours the student is expected to use on the course
    Participation: hours 28 (1 + ½ day at Skjoldenæsholm + written exam)

    Preparation: hours 28 (readings + preparation (see the exercise ‘Preparation for the symposium´))

    Preparation for the symposium
    1. Decide which text you will write on at the symposium and make sure that you are prepared to write it (that you have read the necessary literature and analysed data).

    2. Find an article where you think the introduction is well written. Bring five printed copies of the introduction with you to the symposium. 

    3. Make a list of the relevant journals you could publish your (next) paper in, find at least 5 candidates. If you are in doubt have a discussion with your supervisor(s). Also find the author guidelines for  the journal you are most likely to target. Alternatively find the guidelines for the PhD plan or PhD thesis.

    4. Read the literature listed and get acquainted with the online resources provided.

    Reading list

    Reading list:

    Gardiner, M. & Kearns, H. (2012): The ABCDE of Writing: Coaching high-quality high-quantity writing, International Coaching Psychology Review G Vol. 7 No. 2: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236627021_The_ABCDE_of_Writing_Coaching_high-quality_high-quantity_writing   

    Sørensen, C. (revised version of 2002): This is Not an Article - just some food for thought on how to write one. Working Paper. Department of Information Systems, The London School of Economics and Political Science. No. 121: https://ase.in.tum.de/lehrstuhl_1/files/teaching/ws0607/GSE/notart.pdf

     

    Online sources:

    Angel Borja (2014): How to Prepare a Manuscript for International Journals - Part 1. Six things to do before writing your manuscript: https://www.elsevier.com/connect/six-things-to-do-before-writing-your-manuscript Elsevier

    Angel Borja (2014): How to prepare a manuscript for international journals - Part 2. 11 steps to structuring a science paper editors will take seriously:

    https://www.elsevier.com/connect/11-steps-to-structuring-a-science-paper-editors-will-take-seriously Elsevier

    Rachael Cayley (2018): Writer’s block is not a struggle with your writing but with your thinking. Write your way out of it: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2018/03/23/writers-block-is-not-a-struggle-with-your-writing-but-with-your-thinking-write-your-way-out-of-it/  The London School of Economics and Political Science 

     

     


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