Workshops

WRITING HUB MASTER CLASSES

The Writing Hub offers a range of 90-minute master classes.

These master classes are free for IU students, faculty, and employees.

Every master class focuses on a specific writing issue and suggests numerous practical activities.

A question-and-answer session will take place at the end of every master class.

You will need to register to participate in a master class.

See the list of our writing master classes.

MASTER CLASS LIST

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1. How to improve your sentence structure.

Delivered on:

30 September, 2021

Delivered by:

Georgy Gelvanovsky, English Division

What about:

You will learn:

- why a verb is the king;

- how to use zombies to improve your texts;

- why long sentences are bad;

- why you should start with a subject;

- what are the four C's of an effective text;

- what is the default structure of an English sentence;

- what is an empty subject and why you should avoid it;

- what is nominalization and why it is a bane of every academic writer;

- what is a good text, what is a bad text, and how to differentiate between them;

What is more, you will practice making a bad sentence into a good one and get feedback.

The workshop will end off with a question-and-answer session.

2. Avoiding plagiarism: paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting.

Delivered on:

25 October, 2021

Delivered by:

Oksana Zhirosh, English Division

What about:

You will learn:

- why use other sources in your scientific paper;

- what constitutes plagiarism;

- IEEE and APA requirements for selecting and using references.

You will practice:

- paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting

- formatting citations;

- placing your citations within the scientific text;

- using previous studies or other sources in your scientific texts;

- giving and getting peer feedback.

Please, bring:

(1) a draft of your scientific writing, about three paragraphs;

(2) two or three sources you would like to cite in your draft.

3. Text attack skills.

To be delivered on:

to be announced

To be delivered by:

Rabab Marouf, English Division

What about:

You will learn:

- what text attack skills mean and why they are important in reading comprehension;

- strategies to comprehend texts;

- text attack skills and critical reading.

You will practice:

- identifying what the text writer wants to express;

- Interpreting discourse markers;

- applying the strategies for text attack skills.

4. Formality and Efficiency in Academic Writing

To be delivered on:

to be announced

To be delivered by:

Guzel Fazlyeva, English Division.

What about:

You will learn:

- the difference between formal and informal writing; - the definition of redundancy and wordiness;

- the types of redundancies and wordiness;

- the reasons to avoid redundancies and wordiness.

You will practice:

- changing informal sentences into more formal ones; - removing redundancies and wordiness.

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WRITING HUB MASTER CLASSES

MASTER CLASS LIST

Innopolis University

Education

Science

Innovation

Innopolis University

WRITING HUB MASTER CLASSES

MASTER CLASS LIST

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