Are you interested in incorporating academic writing into your disciplinary courses and learning how to design an assignment to prepare your students for writing more demanding/professional texts, inclduing final theses and research papers? Join us in a brand new course called Teaching Writing in Your Discipline: Strategies, Pedagogy and use of AI in Disciplinary Writing Instruction we designed for academic staff and PhD students.
For supervisors of doctoral students and those interested in teaching professional writing, we offer the Writing for Publication: Supervisor/Lecturer Training course.
Both courses are taught by Dr. Dana L. Driscoll of Indiana University of Pennsylvania and is conducted in English.
In addition to staff from VŠB-TUO, the second course has been taken in the past by colleagues from Charles University, Palacký University in Olomouc, University of Economics in Prague, Brno University of Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague, Institute for the Czech Language at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and colleagues from the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.
We quote from the feedback of the course graduates:
HOW DID I GROW:
- I understand and appreciate the importance of providing examples and templates.
- I understand how the research supports my teaching and apply the core principles in practice.
- I provide better (more helpful) feedback now. I differentiate direct and indirect feedback.
- I value the peer-to-peer feedback strategies and I corporate them into my teaching.
- As a writer – I´m motivated to write again😊
MY TAKE-AWAYS:
Writing is a very complex process. For students to succeed in their writing for publication, they need to understand that being a good writer is not only about good writing skills. They will need to learn more about their target audience, study the genre that is typical for their field, work on their emotional resilience and time-management skills as well as accept the fact that writing is not a linear process therefore they may often experience rejection and failure.