WriteFest Resources
The WriteFest team at The University of Sheffield have created and kindly shared lots of resources as part of WriteFest (thanks Lucy et al!)
You can print your own badge/sticker to let everyone know you’re busy writing!
At Sheffield Hallam you can access:
Publishing
AcWriVox Videos
- Dr Peter Matanle – on coping with rejection (0:44)
- Dr Peter Matanle – on publishing in the PhD (0:36)
- Dr Chris Holland – on turning a 3* into a 4* paper (1:16)
- Dr Chris Holland – on coping with rejection (1:18)
- Dr Chris Holland – on choosing a journal for your work (0:52)
- Dr Chris Holland – on Alt-metrics (0:50)
Articles
- Guidance from the Library Research Support Team on Peer Review
- Guidance from the Library Research Support Team on Open Access and Rights Retention
- Guidance from the Library Research Support Team on Publishing
- How to Avoid Predatory Publishers
- Taylor and Francis – A step by step guide to getting published
Asynchronous Training
- The Conversation Training – Journalistic writing courses for academics
- Responsible use of research metrics – an online course via the Academic CPD Blackboard organisation site
Blogs
- Crafting Your Scholarly Voice: Writing Your First Academic Journal Article
- Sheffield Hallam Open Research Newsletter
- The Wellbeing Thesis – All PGRs Students Should Be Publishing All The Time
Books
Murray, R. (2013). Writing For Academic Journals. In Writing For Academic Journals. McGraw-Hill Education. Link to Writing For Academic Journals via the SHU library
Podcasts
- How to PhD Podcast – The Secrets of Journal Publishing (28:22)
- How to PhD Podcast – Choosing the Perfect Journal Keywords (24:15)
- How to PhD Podcast – How to balance your time writing journals vs your thesis (25:17)
- How to PhD Podcast – How to write and submit journal papers (30:20)
- How to PhD Podcast – How to deal with journal corrections and rejections (28:19)
- How to PhD Podcast – How to peer review (32:43)
- PhD Life Raft Podcast – How to Publish Your PhD (29:23)
- Taylor and Francis Podcast: Getting Published For The First Time (15:13)
- Taylor and Francis Podcast: Making your research open (15:57)
Synchronous Training (please check the LRST Events page and WriteFest Events page for current availability)
- Library Research Support Team: Getting Published – Important issues to consider when getting published, particularly focusing on choosing where to publish.
- Library Research Support Team: Depositing Your Work Using Elements – In this session we will cover the basics of using Elements to deposit your research outputs and manage your publications profile.
- Library Research Support Team: Rights Retention and the New Open Access Policy/Rights Retention – In this session we will cover rights retention, a key aspect of the new open access policy, which allows Hallam authors to retain rights over their work and opens up opportunities for a range of uses of the material. The new policy came into effect on 15 October 2022, and you can find out more on the new open access policy page.
- Writing for The Conversation
Tools
Videos
Publishing With Bloomsbury Webinar (49:08)
Writing
AcWriVox Videos
- Dr Matt Cheeseman – on writing process and habits (2:04)
- Prof. Eleni Vasilaki – on writing process and habits (1:04)
- Dr Chris Blackmore – on writing for health (2:16)
- Dr Jona Foster – on writing a review paper (2:02)
- Dr Peter Matanle – on writing process and habits (0:49)
- Dr Peter Matanle – on writing a monograph (0:42)
- Prof. Ilaria Bellantuono – on writing process and habits (0:49)
- Dr Dan Lambert – on writing process and habits (3:01)
- Prof. Siddharth Patwardhan – on writing for non-specialists (1:23)
- Prof. Barry Gibson – on writing from an interdisciplinary perspective (2:24)
- Prof. Sumon Bhaumik – on writing process and habits (0:48)
- Dr David Hyatt – on developing doctoral writers (2:13)
- Dr Chris Holland – on drafting and redrafting writing (1:13)
- Dr Chris Holland – on early career writing (0:30)
- Dr Chris Holland – on writing for the media (0:56)
- Dr Nik Reeves McLaren – on using an outlining technique (2:13)
- Prof. Wyn Morgan – on writing process and habits (1:30)
Articles
- Academic Writing in Different Disciplines
- Academic writing online study guide and electronic resources from the Skills Centre
- Become a Productive Academic Writer
- Critical writing online study guide and electronic resources from the Skills Centre
- Five Suggestions for Challenging Your Writing Practices
- Guidance from the Library Research Support Team on Literature
- Hone Your Writing Part 1
- Hone Your Writing Part 2
- Taylor and Francis – Advice and guidance on preparing and writing an effective research paper
- University of Edinburgh – Writing Retreat Facilitators Guide
- Using #acrwrimo to reconnect with your desire to write
- Vitae – Writing and Submitting Your Doctoral Thesis
Asynchronous Training
- A playlist of YouTube videos from one of our doctoral researchers, Ian Guest, on using Microsoft Word for your Thesis
- Curated tutorial pages from Digital Skills on using Microsoft Word
- The Conversation Training – Journalistic writing courses for academics
- Your electronic thesis – an online course via the Academic CPD Blackboard organisation site
Blogs
- https://patthomson.net/category/academic-writing/
- https://researchinsiders.blog/
- https://thesiswhisperer.com/category/on-writing/
- https://thinkaheadsheffield.wordpress.com/tag/writing/
- https://thinkaheadsheffield.wordpress.com/2016/08/14/how-to-stop-writing-your-thesis/
Books
Murray, R. (2011). How To Write A Thesis. In How To Write A Thesis. McGraw-Hill Education. Link to How To Write A Thesis via the SHU library
Murray, R. (2015). Writing in social spaces : a social processes approach to academic writing . Routledge. Link to Writing in social spaces via the SHU library
Miscellaneous
Podcasts
- How to beat digital distraction and write more podcast (2:51 – 6:50)
- How to PhD Podcast – Our best writing motivation and productivity hacks (28:46)
- How to PhD Podcast – How to start your thesis (36:45)
- How to Write More Podcast (19:46)
- PhD Life Raft Podcast: How to Finish Your Thesis with Rowena Murray (24:38)
- PhD Life Raft Podcast – Mindful Writing for PhD Researchers (26:02)
- PhD Life Raft Podcast – Proofreading and the PhD (24:56)
Social Media Communities
- Rowena Murray Writing Group | Facebook
- @writethatphd on X (formerly Twitter)
- #acwri
Synchronous Training (please check the Library Skills pages for current availability)
- Academic English for Doctoral Students – The Academic English for Doctoral Student sessions run as part of the University English Scheme. Sessions will run for 10 weeks in the first and second semesters on Thursdays from 1000 – 1130 . The set of 10 sessions will help you to recognise and build the academic language that you need for study at Doctorate level.
- Skills Centre: Advanced Critical Writing – In this session you will have the opportunity to: (1) Generate and apply analysis questions to a range of evidence and source types. (2) Use reporting verbs to accurately introduce and frame evidence. (3) Reflect on the issues of relevance and significance when examining evidence.
- Skills Centre: Critical Writing – In this session, you will have an opportunity to: (1) Recognise what is meant by critical writing at University (2) Consider how to question what you read in a critical way (3) Identify features of both descriptive and critical writing in text examples. (4) Identify actions to improve your critical writing.
- Skills Centre: Introduction to Academic Writing – In this session, you will have an opportunity to: (1) Recognise the key features of academic writing (2) Understand academic voice (3) Refer appropriately to research (4) Know how to quote, paraphrase and summarise (5) Improve sentence and paragraph structure (6) Use effective signposting language.
Tools
- Academic Phrasebank – University of Manchester
- Focus Mate
- Forest
- Jo on Tap – A 15 Minute Writing Session
- Jo on Tap – A 30 Minute Writing Session
- Powerful Verbs
- StayFocusd
- Word Count Metres
Videos (Short)
- James Hayton PhD – How to avoid plagiarism when writing about other people’s research (2:04)
- James Hayton PhD – Don’t Make The Reader Do The Work (3:08)
- James Hayton PhD – How To Beat Writer’s Block (6:33)
- James Hayton PhD – How to improve your writing, part 1 (7:00)
- James Hayton PhD – How to improve your writing part 2 (6:46)
- James Hayton PhD – How to improve your writing, part 3 (7:14)
- James Hayton PhD – How to Write Your PhD Thesis – Tip 1 Calm Focus (5:19)
- James Hayton PhD – How to Write your PhD Thesis Tip 2 – Productivity vs Perfectionism (5:08)
- James Hayton PhD – How to Write your PhD Thesis – Tip 3 – Confidence (4:58)
- James Hayton PhD – How to Write Your PhD Thesis – Tip 4 – Decision Making (5:11)
- James Hayton PhD – How to Write Your PhD Thesis – Tip 5 – Problem Solving in Writing (4:54)
- James Hayton PhD – How to Write Your PhD Thesis – Tip 6 – How to link ideas in your writing (5:42)
- James Hayton PhD – How to Write your PhD Thesis – Tip 7 – How to develop ideas and arguments in your academic writing (6:06)
Videos (Long)
- Angel Productions – The Good Writing Video (35:46) – you must be logged in to Panopto using your usual Sheffield Hallam username and password to access this video.
- James Hayton PhD – Why is PhD thesis writing so stressful? And what can we do about it? (21:10)
- Managing and Writing the Doctoral Thesis or Dissertation (36:52)
- Nick Hopwood – Effective feedback & peer review in academic writing (17:46)
- PhD Life Coach – How to write the thing when you’re not writing the thing (26:00)
- PhD Life Coach – How to shorten your written work (37:33)
Remember, this can all be linked to your professional development under sub-domains D2 (Communication and dissemination) and A3 (Creativity) of the Researcher Development Framework and updated on your planner account.