Lecturer: Brigitte Römmer-Nossek, Birgit Peterson
Fields: Academic skills, Higher Education, Writing Research and Didactics
Content
Resilience, Robustness and Responsibility in Academic Writing
The process of academic working and particularly the processes of reading and writing in academia is demanding, between maintaining a resilient writing behaviour and creating a robust piece of text. It is important to develop a routine in academic writing, which enables the author to become a responsible member of the respective discourse community and satisfy all requirements of scientific quality.
In this practical course we are going to work on aspects important for successful academic writing from 4 different perspectives. Although all 4 parts are connected to each other, it is possible to join for only one session as well.
A Robust Framework for Your Writing Project
In the first session we will introduce our approach to academic writing. We will provide a generic framework for orientation in writing projects and pinpoint the challenges many writers come across in the respective phases. We will use a writing exercise for „getting to the point“.
What am I Doing anyway? Developing as a Writer and Researcher
In this session we will explore the pains of placing what we are doing and writing about it. Finding a research question, positioning in the field of research what we are working on, and deciding what we want to say is hard work. We will look at reasons for that and discuss some strategies.
How to develop a resilient voice as a responsible academic writer
In the third session we focus on how to develop a strong academic voice out of your individual position as academic author. Therefore, you will explore you writing behaviour and the process of gradual formulation of ideas and voice through writing by different mind writing and specific revision strategies useful to embody thoughts within written products.
How to maintain robust choreographies for your academic working
In the last session, the focus will be on the “choreography of academic working”: how we use and adjust a variety of materialities, actions and spaces to our needs within the phases of the academic writing process. The juggling with diverse working materialities and spaces that we tend to involve for different purposes eases the rhythmic shift between different mindsets we need for an efficient and harmonic choreography of academic working.
Literature
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- Elbow, P. Writing with Power: Techniques for Mastering the Writing Process. New York Oxford University Press, 1998.
- Gallagher, C W. “What Writers Do: Behaviors, Behaviorism, and Writing Studies.” College Composition and Communication 68, no. 2 (2016): 238–65. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44783561.
- Peterson, B: Die 99 besten Schreibtipps für die vorwissenschaftliche Arbeit, Matura und das Studium. 2., überarbeitete Auflage. Wien: Krenn, 2017
- Skinner BF. How to discover what you have to say-a talk to students. Behav Anal. (1981) Spring;4(1):1-7. doi: 10.1007/BF03391847.
Lecturer
Brigitte Römmer-Nossek is responsible for the team “Student Research and Peer Learning” at the University of Vienna’s Center for Teaching and Learning and has been a lecturer for 20 years. She studied Brain and Cognitive Science Science as a studium irregulare and was involved in the implementation of the the joint Middle European interdisciplinary master programme in Cognitive Sciences (MEi:CogSci). In her dissertation she engaged in sense-making of academic writing as a cognitive developmental process from an enactive perspective.
Affiliation: University of Vienna
Homepage: https://ctl.univie.ac.at/ueber-das-ctl/teams-und-mitarbeiterinnen/team-wissenschaftliches-arbeiten-und-peer-learning/
Mag.a Birgit Peterson studied Human Biology in Vienna and Rome and gave particular emphasis to Cognitive Science when the Mei:CogSCi Join Master started in Vienna in 2006. She is interested in human cognition and communication in context with learning scenarios. Her focus lies on the connection of human language, thinking, writing, reading and learning and she has been working as a “Learning Professional” and Trainer for scientific reading, writing and thinking for more than 10 years now. Peterson is an author, speaker and trainer in the field of education, from elementary school up to Higher Education. Additionally she is consulting different developmental programs in higher education, such as Support for Scientific Writing, Teaching Skills or Peer- and Alumni-Mentoring programs for young scientists.
Affiliation: University of Vienna