Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/12/2024 10:00 am - 4:00 pm
Audience:
NARTI Thesis Writing Workshop
With Professor Rowena Murray
Monday 9th December 2024
10.00-16.00
Online via Zoom
This is a practical workshop, involving various writing activities and discussions that people say they find useful for different stages in thesis writing. Topics we will cover in this course include writing to prompts for drafts and chapters, criteria for assessing a thesis, analysing academic writing, strategies for generating text, outlining, revising, social writing, making time to write, constructing a ‘contribution’ argument for your thesis, writing a 750-word thesis summary and building a repertoire or ‘tool kit’ of productive strategies for thesis writing and for other ways of writing about research.
The online version of this course involves short writing activities, all designed to help you develop your thesis and to get into the writing habit. By signing up to this course you agree to do the writing tasks and to talk about your writing in small-group discussions, to give and receive feedback on writing and to discuss your writing plans and goals.
If you can fully commit to attending the workshop, please register at the top of this email. Please note that the expectation is that you join for the full day so please do not register if you are unable to do this.
About Professor Rowena Murray: Rowena 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. 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.
Key reference: Murray, R (2017) How to Write a Thesis, 4th edition. Maidenhead: Open University Press-McGraw-Hill.