This hands-on workshop encourages you to explore writing from the reader’s perspective. It will assist you to:
- predict and understand your reader’s expectations,
- make your writing more accessible, clear and succinct,
- develop cohesion and coherence (flow),
- integrate sources, and
- edit for clarity, concision, flow and consistency.
Presented by the Learning Advisors of Student Services. Previously known as Planning to Write and Editing and proofreading your thesis.
After attending this workshop, consider attending Refining your writing.
About Writing skills
The ability to write well is critical to success in your research degree and a ‘top 10’ skill sought by employers. Learning the strategies for good writing will help you write efficiently. Knowing not only what to write, but how to write it for a particular audience, will help you communicate your research effectively.
Useful links
- UQ Academic Writing [online at UQ]
- Improving writing through corpora [online at UQ]
- Getting started with a literature review (Library)
- Getting started with a Systematic Review (Library)
- Write Well series of mini, 1-hour practical writing and communication workshops. Click on the Student Life Workshops link to find next available dates.
- Write Well Essentials: Coherence
- Write Well Essentials: Abstracts
- Write Well Formulating the Elevator Pitch Part 1 - Research headline statement and Part 2 - Elaboration
- Write Well Essentials: Research paper introductions