Scholarship and Research Development: Writing for Publication

Session Outline

Based on practical activities the workshop aims at providing structure, advice and motivation through writing a paper for publication. The workshop series takes an intensive but intellectually supportive approach, drawing on research into academic writing, evidenced in the education and linguistic literature. In addition, participants will learn more about the process of research writing.

The sessions cover:

• Targeting a journal
• Planning and editing techniques
• Understanding the writing process
• Breaking down the structure of papers to generate writing goals
• Overcoming the difficulties in writing research
• Techniques for being an effective writer

Audience: Researchers, experienced or novice, staff or postgraduate, who have or will soon have research they wish to write-up for scholarly publication or data collection. The workshop can either be cross-disciplinary or have a STEM, Arts and Humanities or Social Sciences focus.

Mode of delivery: Workshops are interactive and based on experiential and reflective learning models. The content is evidence based, drawing on linguistics, sociology and education research on research writing.

Resources: Participants should bring any work they have relating to the paper they wish to write and a copy of a research paper they have read recently.

Presenter

Daniel Soule

The Research Writer

Currently living in Northern Ireland, Daniel focuses on creative writing. To date, he has published 3 novels and dozens of short stories as well as numerous non-fiction essays, reviews and poetry.

PhD & Monograph

Daniel obtained his PhD from the University of Glasgow. His thesis was a linguistic study of political campaigning in Scotland. Daniel researches the language of national identity; his most recent co-authored monograph is Political Discourse and National Identity in Scotland with Dr Murray Leith, published by Edinburgh University Press.

Experience in the field

Daniel has worked as a Publication Coordinator for an allied health research consortium in the West of Scotland as well as Lecturer in Academic Writing, in the Graduate School at Glasgow Caledonian University.

Where he is now

Currently living in Northern Ireland, Daniel now focuses on creative writing. To date, he has published 3 novels and dozens of short stories as well as a number of non-fiction essays, reviews and poetry.

Daniel writes speculative as well as literary fiction, both of which he thinks are tautologies, on account of the word ‘fiction’. It’s all literary and speculative, but people do love labels! You can find his work in magazines such as Number Eleven, The Incubator, Devolution Z, Phantaxis, Shoreline of Infinity, Storgy, The Dime Show Review and others.

To Book

Please email lta@uhi.ac.uk to book a place on this event.

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