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Writing for Change 1-week PhD Course

Why?
Writing well is essential to develop and share knowledge with researchers and the public, especially for critical issues like sustainability and global change, but writing skills are rarely taught to early-career scholars.  

Taking this course will help early-career researchers: 
  • write better academic papers that will get noticed by more people
  • structure and convey powerful academic arguments supported by reasoning and evidence  
  • explain your research better to advisors, grant agencies, journalists, and your grandma 
  • write for a broader audience, such as local newspapers, university magazines, commercial magazines and websites, as well as your own blog or lab pages 

When? 
The course is offered the week of April 24-28, 2017 (full-time including evenings), in Lund, Sweden.  Apply by 23:59 CET on February 2 via the link above.  To participate, you must be able to commit this full week to the course (some activities will be off-site). 

What? 
To address this gap, we're teaching "Writing for Change: Academic and Public Writing on Global Change," through the Climate, Biodiversity, and Ecosystem Services in a Changing World Research School (ClimBEco) at Lund University, Sweden.

In this course, we'll focus on the purpose, process, and patterns of good writing, achieved through lots of practice and hands-on writing and editing help!

We will work with the entire writing process, from hands-on activities in workshops, guest lectures from experts in the field, panels on the publication process, and especially lots of practice in writing and editing both academic journal articles and popular science pieces.

For more information, see the full course proposal here, and watch this space for more details. 

Who? 
My co-instructor is Mark Fischetti, senior editor of Scientific American, and we'll teach an intensive week of skills in academic and public science writing on climate change.

We are also collaborating with Ladaea Rylander of the Lund University Academic Support Centre to deliver the course. 



Applications were due Thursday, February 2, 2017. 

Resources

An evolving list of related resources I find helpful. These are not all required reading for the course- a course plan will be posted soon.

Contact information
Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies 


Visiting address

Josephson Room 117 
Biskopsgatan 5
Lund, Sweden

mailing address

LUCSUS, P.O. Box 170
SE-221 00
Lund, Sweden

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ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4756-7851