Today’s session
  • Welcome + Introductions
  • SESSION ONE: Types of Writing
       - Presentation 
       - Exercise One: Obstacles to Writing
  • SESSION TWO: Case Study: Vicky’s Story
       - Read case study
       - Exercise Two: group discussion + feedback
  •  SESSION THREE: Audiences
        - Exercise Three: group discussion + feedback
        - Exercise Four: group work with writing samples
           + feedback
                                     Types of Writing
         ‘For every research task, there’s a writing task’
             Phases of  Writing
       •   Diaries,notebooks, backs of envelopes
       •   ‘Free-writing’
       •   Note-taking
       •   Literature reviews
       •   Frameworks
       •   Proposals / abstracts
       •   ‘pilot’ essays / chapters
       •   ‘Provisional’ chapters 
       •   Draft chapters
       •   Edited chapters
       •   Final drafts of chapters
       •   Introductions and Conclusions
       •   Synopsis / Abstract
       Types of Writing
      Routines for Writing
  • Writing to supervisory deadlines
  • ‘Incremental’ writing (small sprints of writing 
   that accumulate)
  • ‘Binge writing’
  • ‘Accretive’ writing (reading through / 
   correcting as you go)
  • ‘Slot’ writing
        Types of Writing
       Modes of Writing
  • Peripatetic writing (e.g. In cafes)
  • Note-taking (in libraries etc)
  • Diagram-making 
  • Computer-assisted writing utilizing downloads 
   and cut and paste
  • Long-hand first drafts
  • Writing straight onto the computer from brief 
   notes
                               ‘Free-Writing’
      •   Devised and developed by academic-writing gurus like Peter Elbow 
          in the US in the 1980s;
      •   A widely-recognised technique used to address the various 
          manifestations of ‘writer’s block’.
          How to do Free-Writing:
           Write continuously for a short, fixed period of time (e.g., 7 minutes). 
          Write non-stop, without editing; don’t worry about grammar, 
          punctuation or spelling but DO write in sentences; write without 
          any audience (i.e., do not show this writing to anyone); try writing 
          without a purpose, without a focus, allowing yourself to move from 
          one topic to another when you want; structure is not important so 
          you do not need to bring this writing to a conclusion at the end of 7 
          minutes.  (Rowena Murray, University of Strathclyde)