Finding your Academic Voice
24th Jan 2023 10:00am-12:00pm
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'How can I find my academic voice?' This workshop drills down into 'voice' in academic writing, exploring both its restrictions and its possibilities. Through activities and examples, we’ll identify the writerly techniques that forge a ‘voice’ and consider the relationship between the writer’s voice and the reader’s experience. We’ll also look at paraphrasing: what it is and how to keep your own voice from being drowned out.
Katie Grant FHEA co-created the Advancing Academic Writing skills website for the University of Glasgow, where she was the Royal Literary Fund Writing Fellow for three years, helping undergraduates, Masters and PhD students with their writing. A columnist, occasional broadcaster, author of ten novels (Sedition, her latest, is published by Virago), chair of the judges for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and an occasional book reviewer for, amongst other publications, the New York Times, she runs writing workshops on improving the quality, reach and impact of academic writing for all levels of HE. Long experience of the practical, emotional and organisational challenges of writing for deadlines and for different audiences informs all her workshops. She understands from first-hand the value of getting writing done and getting it done well.