Academic Writing Skills Workshop

Event Date: 25 January 2017

Speaker: Professor Rowena Murray, University of the West of Scotland

Time: 2-4.30pm

Location: Strathclyde Business School, CW404b

The Department of Marketing is delighted to offer this Academic Writing Seminar to all SBS doctoral students. Professor Murray (formerly a member of staff at Strathclyde) is a leading expert in academic writing and her books How to write a thesis and How to survive your viva are best sellers. Spaces at the seminar are limited to 30 maximum so if you would like to attend please reply to christina.maclean@strath.ac.uk as soon as possible.

Strategies this workshop will cover include writing to prompts, using a range of different types of prompt, ‘snack’ writing, analysing academic writing, writing a thesis summary, using prompts in series, outlining and writing groups, micro-groups and retreats.

This will be a practical session, involving writing activities and discussions of how these activities can contribute to the writing of theses, journal articles and other academic texts.

Participants are encouraged to bring laptops to this workshop – if you have one – although it is not essential. All the writing activities suggested in this workshop are intended to help participants develop their academic writing.

For further information, see:

Murray, R. (2013) Writing for Academic Journals, 3rd edition

Murray, R. (2017) How to Write a Thesis, 4th edition

Rowenamurray.org.

Published: 12 April 2018