This very well attended session was presented by Dr Terry Royce who is Senior Lecturer, Research Literacies/Forensic Linguistics from UTS's Graduate Research School. Terry has kindly forwarded his slides and handouts for anyone who is interested to see.
Posts tagged with "writing"
Research Week 2012: Communicate and Collaborate
Wednesday's theme during Research Week was Communicate and Collaborate!
Research Reading and Writing by Dr Terry Royce
Shut Up and Write: Reverse Outlines
Originally mentioned to me by Terry Royce of the ELSSA Centre, a reverse outline is a tool that can help you analyse and critique the logical progression of your argument through your draft.
How to create a reverse outline:
Shut up and Write: on being perfect
I've been asking people in our writing club about their writing anxieties. While there are comments about needing to learn about structure and grammar, there seems to be this feeling that they should be able to write perfectly in their first draft, starting at the introduction and working all the way down to the conclusion.
Shut up and write: On signal words and discourse markers
In the shut up and write workshop on Friday, Terry Royce shared a number of useful tips on academic writing. I was particularly taken with his comments on discourse markers and signal words in writing.
Shut up and write @ UTS:Library
At UTS Library we are currently piloting a writing club for research students called Shut up and write. It has been overwh
Question - is your thesis hot or not?
When I was in high school there was a website called hot or not which was incredibly popular. For those not in the know, it’s a site where people put up pictures and the voting audience decided where they are placed on a scale from hot to not. All very scientific.
Research Week: What is a Thesis and Academic Writing Skills
by Ashley England @ UTS Library
We had two excellent presentations by Prof. Mark Tennant and Dr Terry Royce this morning about Academic Writing Skills. We'll be publishing the vodcasts of their talk in the next week or two, but I thought I would post some links and useful Library resources to get you started in the meantime.
Want to improve your writing skills?
Find it difficult writing your thesis?
