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!)

WriteFest Sticker. This is a teal coloured badge which says writer in block capitals in the middle, At the tope it says Write Fest 2023 and at the bottom it has the hashtag Ac Wri Fest 23

You can print your own badge/sticker to let everyone know you’re busy writing!

Please visit the Doctoral School Events Calendar to book on to the writing and publishing development sessions taking place during Writefest 2023! 

At Sheffield Hallam you can access:

Publishing

AcWriVox Videos

Articles

Asynchronous Training

Blogs

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

Synchronous Training (please check the Events Calendar for current availability)

  • LRST: Getting Published Important issues to consider when getting published, particularly focusing on choosing where to publish.
  • LRST: 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.
  • LRST: 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

https://thinkchecksubmit.org/

Videos

Publishing With Bloomsbury Webinar (49:08)

Writing

AcWriVox Videos

Articles

Asynchronous Training

Blogs

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

Journal of Imaginary Research 

Podcasts

Social Media Communities

Synchronous Training (please check the Events Calendar 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

Videos (Short)  

Videos (Long)  

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.