Workshop Series with Dr. Rebecca Schuman: Productive & Rewarding Writing with Digital Tools
09.09.2022
An event of Writing Matters
Dr. Rebecca Schuman is a professor pro tempore of literature at the University of Oregon’s Clark Honors College as well as an instructor of creative writing in the Stanford Continuing Studies program. She received her Ph.D. in German from the University of California at Irvine in 2010 and is the author of the academic monograph Kafka and Wittgenstein: The Case for an Analytic Modernism (Northwestern University Press 2015). She has been an academic-writing coach and productivity specialist since 2013. Her advice column for the Chronicle of Higher Education “Are You Writing?” has been guiding scholars through the academic writing process since 2018.
This three-day online workshop is particularly aimed at graduate and doctoral students writing in English. Sessions are planned for Friday, 9 September 2022; Friday, 23 September 2022; and Friday, 30 September 2022 from 17:00 - 19:45 (Central European Time).
Workshop Schedule
Friday, 9 September 2022
- 17:00-17:30 welcome and introductory work session (participants should be ready to do some writing right away)
- 17:30-18:00 introductory presentation
- 18:00-18:10 break
- 18:10-18:40 question & answer period
- 18:40-18:45 break
- 18:45-19:45 workshop on putting together a digital work plan
Friday, 23 September 2022
- 17:00-17:45 discussion/troubleshooting about work plan success and failure
- 17:45-17:55 break
- 17:55-18:15 presentation
- 18:15-18:45 question & answer period
- 18:45-19:45 breakout sessions for individual or small group work planning
Friday, 30 September 2022
- 17:00-17:45 discussion/troubleshooting about Week 2 work plan success and failure
- 17:45-17:55 break
- 17:55-18:15 presentation
- 18:15-18:45 question & answer period
- 18:45-19:45 final breakout sessions for individual or small group longer-term work planning
To sign up for the workshop and for any further questions, please contact the Schreibzentrum | Writing Center der JMU Würzburg by 31 August 2022: schreibzentrum@uni-wuerzburg.de
The workshops will take place on ZOOM.
