{"id":81,"date":"2016-03-07T21:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T21:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doublelayer.eu\/vilab\/?p=81"},"modified":"2016-03-16T10:57:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T10:57:41","slug":"writing-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doublelayer.eu\/vilab\/2016\/03\/07\/writing-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thesis writing and, in general, academic writing is a skill. Not everyone has that skill, but certainly most can get it. To develop an understanding of the behaviours associated with successful writing, we organized a workshop with the help of AVOK \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.maailmakeeled.ut.ee\/en\/avok\" target=\"_blank\">Centre for Academic Writing and Communication<\/a>. Under the supervision of\u00a0Djuddah A. J. Leijen,\u00a0we started this four-hour workshop with Q&amp;A followed by\u00a0sessions\u00a0about time management, in particular how to avoid procrastination, and, of course, grammar.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Writing a thesis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To begin with, below\u00a0is a list of question which one can ask him\/her-self while writing a thesis:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is the format of the thesis?<\/li>\n<li>How far are you in the process?<\/li>\n<li>Where do you start \/ how do you put everything together?<\/li>\n<li>What kind of problems do you encounter?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Time Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>Time management is important. A simple calendar, a task-list and a time-tracking technique, like Pomodoro, could boost the writing markedly. The calendar allows to see the big picture in a form of a plan.\u00a0The task-list helps with breaking the writing into small and easily achievable goals. Overall, the thesis writing is like a long journey. Thus it does require a systematic approach in planning. Yet, many parts of the writing, such as proofreading and citing, are just like anything else you do, for example, shoping and eating.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Creation of body text is indeed a challenging process. Often this can lead to devlopement of writer&#8217;s block, a variety of procrastination. Common reasons for this are: Fear of failure,\u00a0Self censoring criticism and\u00a0Perfectionism. Experienced writers produce text\u00a0with initially little care to\u00a0errors, content censoring, formatting or grammar. Allowing them to initially\u00a0get down the main ideas and the plot.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For inexperienced writers, rearrangement of environment and of the one&#8217;s habits\u00a0helps to decrease to effects of\u00a0 procrastination (if it is not another for of that). Further to this, \u00a0writing in small sessions \u00a0instead of &#8220;binging&#8221; increases efficiency and improves results.\u00a0Finally, pre- and post-writing thinking are\u00a0extremely useful are an integral part of the process allowing for rationalization of workflow and future tasks.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Some things to remember<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Writing up\u2019 obscures the fact that doctoral writing is thinking.\u00a0We write to work out what we think. It\u2019s not that we do the research and then know.<\/li>\n<li>Writing up\u2019 obscures the fact that producing a dissertation text is hard work.\u00a0Writing is physical, emotional and aesthetic labour. Sitting at a keyboard for hours on end is hard on nerves and bodies.<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Writing up\u2019 obscures the fact that doctoral writing is not transparent.\u00a0Facts are not already there, waiting for the researcher to discover and grab. What writing creates is a particular representation of reality. Data is produced in writing, not found. And the data and subsequent texts that are written, are shaped and crafted by the researcher through a multitude of selections: what to include and exclude, what is foreground and background, what to cite and not cite. These choices often have profound ethical and emotional dimensions and raise issues that need conscious attention by doctoral writers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thesis writing and, in general, academic writing is a skill. Not everyone has that skill, but certainly most can get it. To develop an understanding of the behaviours associated with successful writing, we organized a workshop with the help of AVOK \u2013 Centre for Academic Writing and Communication. Under the supervision of\u00a0Djuddah A. J. Leijen,\u00a0we&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/doublelayer.eu\/vilab\/2016\/03\/07\/writing-workshop\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6,9,14],"tags":[16,15],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-know-how","category-management","category-publication","category-writing","tag-academic-writing","tag-avok"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublelayer.eu\/vilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublelayer.eu\/vilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublelayer.eu\/vilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublelayer.eu\/vilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublelayer.eu\/vilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/doublelayer.eu\/vilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"https:\/\/doublelayer.eu\/vilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doublelayer.eu\/vilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublelayer.eu\/vilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doublelayer.eu\/vilab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}