GPSC483 - Polish your academic writing



Description

Do you want to improve the organization of your writing but don’t know where to start? Do your professors or colleagues tell you that your written assignments lack clarity, and you need some help to fix the problem? In the workshop “What’s in an edit? Strategies to polish your academic writing” we explore strategies and techniques that help identify and correct problems with organization and clarity in your writing projects.

In this workshop we will explain proven rewriting strategies and editing techniques including rearranging, adding, and deleting information, as well as evaluating coherence, language adjustment, redundancy, use of adverbs, and transitions in a text. Through various exercises, participants will be able to practice these editing principles and how to apply them in their writing projects.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Apply rewriting strategies to make a text convey a clearer idea
2. Utilize editing techniques to emphasize the ideas of the text
3. Discern what to look for when proofreading

Leaders Information

Arsenio is a PhD candidate in the Sleep, Cognition and Neuroimaging Laboratory at Concordia. His research is focused on using artificial intelligence to investigate how changes in sleep can predict the progression of Alzheimer’s Disease and how physical activity and sleep influence cognition in older adults. Before coming to Montreal, he completed an MSc and DPhil (PhD) in Evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford, UK and a BSc, MSc and doctorate in the US. Arsenio has experience conducting clinical research, peer-reviewing, and publishing papers. When not at the lab, Arsenio is an avid reader, cook, and equestrian.