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Join in the global challenge to boost your academic writing this November. Check our website for resources, share your tips with the researcher community, and start writing!
November is Academic Writing Month, an academic write-a-thon that happens every year, inspired by National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), catering to the specific needs of academic writers.
Originally hosted by 'PhD2Published', the global academic community has now taken up the annual challenge to support each other to pledge their writing projects, record progress, and share thousands of writing tips via the #AcWriMo hashtag. Follow us on Twitter, @UCL_ODResearch for more academic writing month updates.
Why WriteFest?
The festival aims to provide protected time and space for writing to help you to:
- HABITS - develop good writing practices and strategies.
- BLOCKS - overcome blocks and take proactive approach to writing.
- PROTECT - set up routines to incorporate academic writing as part of the writing day.
- SOCIAL - spend some time out writing with others.
Writing Training Opportunites
Explore some of training opportunities available to doctoral researchers and research staff to support your writing throughout November 2024.
- On-Demand Courses:
Self-paced Courses: Nature Masterclasses: Narrative Tools for Researchers Focus on Peer Review Writing a Research Paper Writing a Research Paper 2nd Edition Writing and Publishing a Review Paper Writing and Publishing a Review Paper 2nd Edition Publishing a Research Paper Effecive Science Communication The Writing Series: Doctoral Researchers: The Writing Series: Writing and publishing a research paper Academics & Research Staff: The Writing Series: Writing and publishing a research paper The Conversation: Who we are and how we work with academics How to write for The Conversation How to pitch to The Conversation Writing for Insights
- Writing Retreats
Date: Course Title: 05 Nov 2024 Doctoral Researchers: The Writing Series: Weekly Writing Retreats
Academics & Research Staff: The Writing Series: Weekly Writing Retreats12 Nov 2024 Doctoral Researchers: The Writing Series: Weekly Writing Retreats
Academics & Research Staff: The Writing Series: Weekly Writing Retreats19 Nov 2024 Doctoral Researchers: The Writing Series: Weekly Writing Retreats
Academics & Research Staff: The Writing Series: Weekly Writing Retreats26 Nov 2024 Doctoral Researchers: The Writing Series: Weekly Writing Retreats
Academics & Research Staff: The Writing Series: Weekly Writing Retreats
- Writing Your Thesis
Date: Course Title: 11 Nov 2024 Doctoral Researchers: Writing your PhD Thesis Methods/ Methodology 11 Nov 2024 Doctoral Researchers: Choosing a journal suitable for your research manuscript
Academics & Research Staff: Choosing a journal suitable for your research manuscript25 Nov 2024 Doctoral Researchers: Writing your PhD Thesis Results and Discussion 29 Nov 2023 Doctoral Researchers: Writing Up Research Arguments and Findings 20 Nov 2023 Doctoral Researchers: The Writing Series: Writing PhD thesis impact statement
- Writing for Publication:
Date: Course Title: BioNews Writing Scheme 18 Nov 2023 Doctoral Researchers: The Writing Series: Book Proposals: A Practical Guide
Academics & Research Staff: The Writing Series: Book Proposals: A Practical Guide
(Full list of writing development opportunities can be found on Doctoral Researchers: DSDP - Engagement, Influence and Impact and Research Staff: RSDP - Engagement, Influence and Impact).
Call for Abstracts: Journal of Imaginary Research
The Journal of Imaginary Research is now accepting submissions of new short fictional pieces for their annual volume produced each November to celebrate Global Academic Writing Month. They publish imaginary research abstracts, and all previous volumes are available as free downloads.
- Find out how to take part
Imaginary research abstracts are short works of fiction, that take a format that is familiar to researchers and academics. An abstract is the summary of an academic paper, that gives us a succinct overview of the research that has been done, and the new outcomes or ideas that the research has generated.
The 2024 theme: Flourishing
To have your creative work considered for inclusion, please submit, in one MS Word file:
1. A title for your fictional study
2. A 200-word imagined (fictional) research abstract
3. A 100-word imagined (fictional) researcher biography
4. A high resolution copy of the copyright free image which accompanies your written abstract
Submit these four things for consideration to kay.guccione@glasgow.ac.uk by 5pm on Friday 6th December, 2024
