WriteFest
WriteFest is an international celebration of academic writing, that supports and encourages good practices and habits of writing. Here at Liverpool, we are joining the celebrations with a month of writing related activities including weekly WriteFest Coffees, writing retreats and workshops.
Programme
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Week 1: 2-6 November – Getting your writing started |
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Monday |
WriteFest Coffee: getting your writing started |
3–4pm Register |
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Tuesday |
PGR Writing Retreat |
9.45–12pm Register |
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Wednesday |
PGR Writing workshop with Jen Allanson |
9.30am-1pm Register |
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Thursday |
Researcher KnowHow: publishing open access in five easy steps |
11am–12pm Register |
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Friday |
Virtual Writing Retreat |
1-4pm on Teams |
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Week 2: 9-13 November – Expanding your horizons |
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Monday |
WriteFest Coffee: diversity in research – expanding your reading horizons? |
3-4pm Register |
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Tuesday |
Researcher KnowHow: copyright and your thesis |
11am–12pm Register |
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Wednesday |
PGR workshop with Jen Allanson |
9.30am-1pm Register |
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Researcher KnowHow: Getting started with a systematic review |
10.30–11.30am Register |
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Thursday |
Researcher KnowHow: choosing the right journal |
11am–12pm Register |
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Friday |
Virtual Writing Retreat |
1-4pm on Teams |
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Week 3: 16-20 November – Supporting others on their writing journey |
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Monday |
WriteFest Lunch (webinar/chat) – supporting others, e.g. SUAW? |
3-4pm Register |
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Tuesday |
PGR Writing Retreat |
9.45am–12pm Register |
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Researcher KnowHow: turning your thesis into a monograph |
2–3pm Register |
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Wednesday |
PGR Supervisors Network: supporting PGR writing |
12-1pm Register |
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PGR workshop with Jen Allanson |
9.30am-1pm Register |
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Researcher KnowHow: planning and doing a search for your systematic review |
10.30–11.30am Register |
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Friday |
Virtual Writing Retreat |
1-4pm on Teams |
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Week 4: 23-27 November – Keep going by getting creative |
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Monday |
Researcher KnowHow: literature searching tips and tricks |
11am-12pm Register |
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WriteFest Coffee: Getting creative with your writing – try blogs and poems? |
15:00 – 16:00 Register |
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Thursday |
Researcher KnowHow: altmetric and social media for research |
11am-12pm Register |
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Friday |
Virtual Writing Retreat |
1-4pm on Teams |
WriteFest playlist
Listen to the WriteFest playlist, especially created to celebrate Academic writing. The playlist has some background instrumental songs, some that are slightly upbeat to recharge energy as well as those with writer in the title! Enjoy.
Researcher development resources
Ten Simple Rules for Writing a Postdoctoral Fellowship
Blogging Your Research – Making an Impact recorded sessions (3 x 50mins webinars). This series of recorded webinars will walk you through the process of building a successful research blog using blogging strategies for content and promotion.
Exploring and Sharing Research Through Poetry – Making an Impact recorded session (60mins).
Poetry is an amazing method of getting to grips with your own research area and for sharing your findings with the world. This recorded webinar discusses using poetry as a method of research communication and helps you get started on writing your first research poem.
Science, Poetry and Impact - a recorded talk by the webinar facilitator Dr. Sam Solnick, co-director of the Literature and Science Hub.
Free templates and planners available to help with your writing, planning and collaboration: http://www.ithinkwell.com.au/resources.
Further resources
Researcher KnowHow at the library
LDC Development Team resources
WriteFest 2020 Aims
Habits: develop good writing practices and strategies -- Protect: protect time for writing as part of the working day -- Blocks: overcome blocks, take a proactive approach to writing -- Social: join a community of writers to share writing experiences
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