Academic skills workshop: Writing academically as a conversation (Part 1)
When:
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Venue:
Online
This workshop is for Birkbeck students. Book your place in My Birkbeck / Events and Workshops (not sure how to do that? Watch this short video guide!). If you use the link above to book, please use your Birkbeck student email address to sign up - thanks!
- Do you wonder why you are expected to use other readings and sources in your written work?
- Do you struggle to understand why and how to use other readings and sources in your own writing?
- Do you find it hard to find your own academic ‘voice’?
If you said yes to any of the above questions, then join us in this workshop.
Drawing on other academic sources is a key aspect of academic writing. So academic writing might be considered a form of academic conversation, in which our own arguments are set against a backdrop of ‘what other people say’. In this first of two sessions, we will consider how academic writing is about entering into academic conversation with other sources, and consider the three main ways we might respond to what other writers have said: agreeing, disagreeing, or something in-between: ‘yes, but …’. The session will investigate examples to see how this works in practice, and suggest a range of templates you can use to help you frame your ideas in your written assignments as part of an academic debate.
Contact name:
Kerry Bannister