Course content
As academics, we are not trained to think like writers or storytellers, but our research papers can benefit from the strategic use of storytelling and writing principles. Learn how you can improve your writing process by applying simple and effective techniques to give your writing purpose and to create a cohesive, clear, and concise scientific story for your audience.
We are not here to learn rules, but to learn universal principles and practices that improve our writing skills and process.
Take aways
This course is for PhD candidates who want to improve their writing process and skills. After participating in the workshop, you will have knowledge about how to structure your writing process and will have practical tools and techniques to brainstorm, outline, draft, and revise your research into clear, understandable, and engaging research articles.
Instructor
Clay Gouin has been a Senior Writing Advisor with the Norwegian University of Life Sciences' Writing Centre for over eight years and now works with IDEA at the UV Faculty of UiO. With a background in language and pedagogy, Clay has been providing academic writing support to PhD candidates through workshops, webinars, one-on-one consultations, video tutorials, and podcasts. Instead of focusing on rules, Clay teaches universal principles that improve the structure, coherence, clarity, and concision of writing while helping researchers develop a writing practice that fits their individual learning process and communication style.