Date/Time
Date(s) - 04/06/2025 - 05/06/2025 10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Audience:
LUBS Training & Development
‘Rhetoric and Writing’
With Professor Rowena Murray
4-5th June 2025
(10.00-14.00 both days) – Online via Zoom
REGISTER HERE (link not yet active)
This workshop, delivered over two half days, will cover the principles of written argument. It focuses on rhetorical modes and how we can use them to construct journal articles and thesis chapters. The programme includes audience analysis, rhetorical analysis of published writing, modes of exposition as ways of structuring writing, modes of constructing written arguments, paragraph structures and writing styles.
Programme:
DAY ONE
10am Welcome, Introductions, Definitions
Rhetoric Scholarship, Rhetorical Triangle, Rhetorical Modes
Writing activity: sticking to the point and being specific
Audience Analysis
11-11.30 Break + reading – Murray (2014) article on ‘snack and binge’ writing in JADE
11.30-11.45 Modes of exposition
11.45-12.30 Writing activity: choose and use a mode of exposition (300 words)
12.30-1 Mini-break
1-1.30 Assessment & Feedback
1.30-2 Conclusions, questions, further reading – Scott et al. + my analysis
DAY TWO
10am Modes of Argument
10.30-11.30 Writing activity: choose and use a mode of argument (300 words)
11.30-11.45 Mini-break
11.45-12.15 Assessment & Feedback
12.15-12.45 Rhetorical analysis: Selzer & Wilk et al
12.45-1.15 Mini-break + reading Selzer & Wilk et al. extracts
1.15-1.55 Paragraph structure & topic sentences
verbs, outlines, prompts, tweets
1.55-2 Conclusions, next steps, feedback
Professor Rowena Murray graduated MA (Hons) from Glasgow University and PhD from the Pennsylvania State University. Formerly Professor in Education at the University of the West of Scotland, Head of Business Writing at Strathclyde Business School and Honorary Visiting Scholar at Liverpool University, she is now Adjunct Professor at Strathclyde Business School and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. A Principal Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy, she was nominated for the Research Culture Award at Stirling University in 2021. She researches academic writing, the subject of her articles, books and chapters. She does online and in-person writing retreats, courses and 1-2-1 sessions with academics, researchers, doctoral students and others through her company, Anchorage Educational Services.