✍🏼 WORKSHOP: Building a Purposeful Academic Writing Practice w/ Emily Doucet
** This is a LIVE workshop. Attendees will be sent a video recording after the workshop. **
You’ve heard the advice: schedule time for writing, write every day, write for at least 30 minutes per day, and so on. But what do you actually do when you sit down to write?
For academic writers tasked with synthesizing large amounts of information and communicating original research, a regular planning practice is perhaps as important as a regular writing practice.
Join us for a one-hour workshop with Emily Doucet to discover how to build a purposeful academic writing practice. This workshop will feature a lecture interspersed with reflective prompts designed to introduce participants to the principles of purposeful planning.
Participants will learn to:
Identify and set writing goals
Break down larger tasks into micro-tasks
Ascertain how long tasks generally take to complete
Budget time effectively and realistically
No preparation or special materials are needed, aside from something to write with (either pen and paper or computer).
About Emily Doucet
Emily Doucet is an academic developmental editor, writer, and historian of photography and visual culture. As a developmental editor, she runs Framing Devices, offering editorial support for academic writers in the humanities. She holds a Ph. D. in Art History from the University of Toronto. She has published scholarly articles and book chapters, maintains an active practice as an art critic, and has taught undergraduate courses in art history and visual culture at the University of Toronto and at McGill University. Her first book is forthcoming from Duke University Press. She co-organizes a working group called Public Writing in the Humanities at the University of Toronto, supporting academic authors in honing their craft and experimenting with new writing modalities. She lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal.
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