COMPLETED FOR 2023/2024 SEMESTER 2
Please check back in September for an updated list.
Slides and recordings of our workshops are available on our ‘useful PowerPoints’ webpage.
COMPLETED February 2024 Workshops
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13/02/2024 | 2-3pm | This is an ideal workshop for all first year students who want to learn the basics of academic writing in third level education. |
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Reporting the Work of Others. Why bother? COMPLETED |
14/02/2024 | 11-12pm | Very simply, this workshop looks at how writers in academic contexts report the work of others. We look at how we introduce (or do not introduce) information from our sources and what those ways of reporting mean in terms of how the writer regards the information or the source of the information and how they use that information to make their case. |
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Understanding your assignment: planning and organising your response COMPLETED |
15/02/2024 | 11-12pm | When we get an assignment, often we don’t know what to do with it. This workshop looks at assignments and systematically analyses what the assignment is asking the student to do. Students are welcome to bring assignments with them. |
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20/02/2024 | 11-12pm |
Early in the process of production, good writers evaluate the situation into which they write. The context that we, as students, write ourselves into is an academic context. Every situation has conventions, and though not all disciplines write in the same way, there are expectations of academic work that transcend the disciplinary differences. This workshop looks at what academics do and how the values they revere inform us about their expectations when assessing the work that we submit for a grade. |
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The Mechanics of Citing and Referencing Sources COMPLETED |
20/02/2024 | 3-4pm |
This presentation recognises that there are variations in referencing styles; for instance, Harvard is as dissimilar to Modern Language Association (MLA) style as MLA is to Oscola. This presentation looks at some of the components normally found in a citation or reference such as the kinds of information included, the order of that information and the punctuation that establishes the boundaries of each component part. |
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Developing and Organising your Argument COMPLETED |
21/02/2024 | 2-3pm | Too many students try to fit arguments into simple genres like the 5-paragraph essay, etc. This session talks about why it is so difficult to do that and how the argument determines organizational options from which the writer can choose in order to create a more logical, coherent flow to the case they are trying to make in their papers. |
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27/02/2024 | 12-1pm | This is an ideal workshop for all first year students who want to learn the basics of academic writing in third level education. |
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Introducing quotes, paraphrases and summaries of others' work COMPLETED |
29/02/2024 | 11-12pm |
This presentation points to some strategies that writers use to self-reference without actually referring to themselves. Reporting the work of others takes at least three forms: quoting, paraphrasing or summarising. When reporting, we use language to indicate our attitude toward the information that we are reporting: embracing the information reported, rejecting the information reported or taking a neutral stance in relation to it. This presentation will look at some strategies that expert writers use to indicate their attitude toward the ideas and findings of others’ research. |
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29/02/2024 | 3-4pm | Many students are writing research proposals for undergraduate and postgraduate research projects such as FYPs, Masters Dissertations and PhD Theses. This workshop looks at what is involved in putting together a proposal that announces a research project that is both challenging, yet manageable. |
COMPLETED March 2024 Workshops
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05/03/2024 | 2-3pm | This workshop looks at the job literature reviews do in research papers, at some of the possible ways that literature reviews take shape and get organised and how they organise the sections/chapters that follow. For students writing FYPs, Masters Dissertations and PhD Theses. |
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Writer-based Writing: Coming up with Something to Say COMPLETED |
07/03/2024 | 11-12pm |
This workshop takes participants through the process of figuring out what they want to say in their paper. Participants will learn how to plan their essay, choose a topic, and gather information. |
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12/03/2024 | 11-12pm |
In many disciplines, we are asked to write a reflective essay, a seemingly informal paper. However, though somewhat subjective, reflective papers indicate and evidence learning. Attend this presentation if you want to understand how the reflective paper functions. |
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From Proposal to Submission, Progressing your Dissertation or Theses COMPLETED |
13/03/2024 | 2-3pm |
This workshop tries to understand the process that a writer goes through when writing major research papers and how the various pieces—proposal, Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Findings, Discussion and Conclusion--speak to each other and bring coherence to the thesis. |
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A Word about Word®, Formatting and Proofing Basics COMPLETED |
19/03/2024 | 2-3pm | This workshop explores some of the features available on Microsoft Word for formatting and proofing your papers to become more efficient and achieve higher grades in assignments. |
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Reader-based Writing: Focus on Form COMPLETED |
21/03/2024 | 2-3pm | This workshop takes participants through the process of deciding how best to word what they want to say in their paper. Participants will learn strategies on wording your essay, so the audience finds both the content and reporter of information credible. |
COMPLETED April 2024 Workshops
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Strategies for Overcoming Obstacles to Writing COMPLETED |
03/04/2024 | 11-12pm |
All writers encounter obstacles while working on papers, whether for academic assessment or publication. Some of these obstacles are exterior to the writer, other interior. Good writers develop strategies for overcoming some of these obstacles in order to achieve their research and writing goals. This workshop will help participants identify and develop such strategies. |
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The Mechanics of Citing and Referencing Sources COMPLETED |
04/04/2024 | 2-3pm |
This presentation recognises that there are variations in referencing styles; for instance, Harvard is as dissimilar to Modern Language Association (MLA) style as MLA is to Oscola. This presentation looks at some of the components normally found in a citation or reference such as the kinds of information included, the order of that information and the punctuation that establishes the boundaries of each component part. |
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Writing your Literature Review COMPLETED |
09/04/2024 | 2-3pm | This workshop looks at the job literature reviews do in research papers, at some of the possible ways that literature reviews take shape and get organised and how they organise the sections/chapters that follow. For students writing FYPs, Masters Dissertations and PhD Theses. |
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Revising and Editing your Assignments COMPLETED |
11/04/2024 | 12-1pm |
This workshop looks at why revising is important and at what is involved. |
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Introducing the quoted, paraphrased or summarised work of others COMPLETED |
16/04/2024 | 12-1pm | This presentation points to some strategies that writers use to self-reference without actually referring to themselves. Reporting the work of others takes at least three forms: quoting, paraphrasing or summarising. When reporting, we use language to indicate our attitude toward the information that we are reporting: embracing the information reported, rejecting the information reported or taking a neutral stance in relation to it. This presentation will look at some strategies that expert writers use to indicate their attitude toward the ideas and findings of others’ research. |
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Reader-based Writing, Writing with an Audience COMPLETED |
17/04/2024 | 2-3pm | This workshop takes participants through the process of deciding how best to word what they want to say in their paper. Participants will learn strategies on wording your essay, so the audience finds both the content and reporter of information credible. |