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FACULTY Writes Upcoming Events

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Workshops

Faculty Burnout & Writing Imperatives Webinar: Conversation & Strategy Session
MAR 22, 2-2:50:PM

VIRTUAL WEBINAR ON ZOOM
This virtual conversation and strategy session includes a short introduction to studies of faculty burnout followed by an open conversation about our collective understandings and experiences of professional burnout. What is it? How might we experience it? How might we address the various manifestations and impacts of faculty burnout in our departments, colleges, and disciplinary fields? What role does “writing” play in the processes and effects of burnout?

Grants at the Sentence-Level: A Workshop with Dr. Jeff Wilusz of MIP & Dr. Kristina Quynn of CSU Writes
MAR 23, 2-2:50PM

VIRTUAL WEBINAR ON TEAMS
This workshop examines what makes grant proposals succeed or fail at the sentence-level. Grant writers will leave this session with reviewer insights and key revision strategies.

Retreats

Friday &/or Saturday RETREATS are “build-your-own.” Commit & attend as works best for you. Each day includes 5.5 hours of dedicated writing time.

MAR 3 / 4 TEAMS

MAR 10 / 11 In-Person

APR 7 / 8 TEAMS

APR 21 GRANT (TEAMS)

MAY 30 – JUNE 2 Week-Long Intensive

Register here.

GRAD Writes Upcoming Events

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Workshops

Zotero & Mendeley Training Session
MAR 2, 3-4:30 PM MST

IN-PERSON SESSION: LSC 324
This training builds off last semester’s introduction to Zotero & Mendeley, “Top 10 Things You Can Do with Citation Management Software (#7 will shock you!).” Working with your own research library, you can put tools and strategies into practice and ask questions of citation management experts to immediately build your citation and source management skills (with experts from CSU Libraries, Renae Watson and Rachelle Ramer).

Note to participants: Please bring your laptop with access to the software you are using to this workshop.

Passive/Active Voice Webinar with Kelly Bradbury
MAR 8, 1-2:15 PM MST

WEBINAR ON ZOOM
This webinar will help you recognize passive voice, edit your writing for passive sentences, and revise sentences to make them active. These techniques can be useful for all fields of study and types of academic writing.

Avoid Jargonitis Webinar: How to Use Specialized Language for Various Audiences
MAR 21, 12-1:30 PM MST

WEBINAR ON ZOOM
Most academic writers will suffer from jargonitis at some point in their career. “Jargonitis” is the recurring and excessive use of specialized language that obscures rather than communicates meaning. This webinar will help writers identify and eliminate jargon and to opt instead for the skillful use of specialized language. The most complex field-specific words can carry meaning to various reader—attend and learn how to write with meaning and avoid jargon.

Grants at the Sentence-Level: A Workshop with Dr. Jeff Wilusz of MIP & Dr. Kristina Quynn of CSU Writes
MAR 23, 2-2:50 PM MST

WEBINAR ON TEAMS
This workshop examines what makes grant proposals succeed or fail at the sentence-level. Grant writers will leave this session with reviewer insights and key revision strategies.

Punctuation with Editor Stephanie G’Schwind Webinar
APR 4, 12-1:30 PM MST

WEBINAR ON ZOOM
This workshop covers the basic rules of correct punctuation: commas, semi-colons, colons, dashes, and more!

Guest presenter Stephanie G’Schwind is the editor of Colorado Review and the director of the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University.

Retreats

FRI 4-5pm Prep Session (Zoom)
SAT 8:30-4:30 Full-Day Session
FEB 3-4 In-Person

MAR 3-4 In-Person

MAR 10-11 Virtual

APR 7-8 Virtual

MAY 22-26 Week-Long In-Person

Register here.

FACULTY Writes Spring 2023

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Take a look at what FACULTY Writes is offering Spring 2023.

Workshops & Webinars

JAN 24 Your Semester Writing Webinar (Zoom)

JAN 25 Your Semester Writing Workshop (LSC 306)

JAN 26 4-Hour Article Draft Intro Session (Zoom)

FEB 8 Write at Speed Webinar & Practice Session (Zoom)

FEB 22 Writing Collaboratively with Grad Students Webinar (Zoom)

MAR 22 Faculty Burnout & Writing Imperatives (Zoom)

Retreats

Friday &/or Saturday RETREATS are “build-your-own.” Commit & attend as works best for you. Each day includes 5.5 hours of dedicated writing time.

FEB 3 / 4 TEAMS

FEB 10 / 11 In-Person

FEB 17 GRANT (TEAMS)

MAR 3 / 4 TEAMS

MAR 10 / 11 In-Person

APR 7 / 8 TEAMS

APR 21 GRANT (TEAMS)

MAY 30 – JUNE 2 Week-Long Intensive

Accountability

WARP: Writing Accountability for Research Projects

GRANT WRITES (w/ NIH, NSF no-deadline & NSF-Career options)

show up & write. M-F 8am-5pm with Faculty & Researcher of Color sessions

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GRAD Writes Spring 2023

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Take a look at what GRAD Writes is offering Spring 2023.

Workshops & Webinars

JAN 24 Your Semester Writing Webinar

JAN 25 Your Semester Writing Workshop (LSC 306)

JAN 26 4-Hour Article Draft Intro

FEB 1 Strategies to Address Procrastination & Writing Slumps

FEB 2 Write at Speed Webinar

FEB 6 Writing for Publication: Big Picture

FEB 8 Write at Speed Workshop (LSC 322)

FEB 14 ETD: Electronic Thesis/Dissertation Information Session

FEB 15 How to Revise and Edit Webinar

FEB 22 Writing Collaboratively with Faculty Advisors

MAR 2 Zotero & Mendeley Training Session (Library RM TBA)

MAR 8 Passive/Active Voice Webinar with Kelly Bradbury

MAR 21 Avoid Jargonitis Webinar

APR 4 Punctuation with Editor Stephanie G’Schwi

Retreats

FRI 4-5pm Prep Session (Zoom)

SAT 8:30-4:30 Full-Day Session

FEB 3-4 In-Person

FEB 10-11 Virtual (on Zoom)

MAR 3-4 In-Person

MAR 10-11 Virtual

APR 7-8 Virtual

MAY 22-26 Week-Long In-Person

Accountability & More

DATA: Dissertation and Thesis Accountability

show up & write. M-F 8am-5pm (virtual & in-person)

Write to Publish (W2P): 12-wk non-credit certificate course

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GRANT Writes Spring 2023

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February – June 2023

GRANT Writes provides grant writing support and proven methods to help CSU researchers produce high-quality proposals with greater ease.

Events held on MS Teams.

GRANT Work & Review Groups

Launch February 17th

Writers can join a group up to May 1st.

Organized through CSU Writes, groups meet weekly for accountability and feedback to build momentum and craft high-quality proposals.

Accountability Writing Sessions

FEB 7 – MAY 9 Tuesdays & Thursdays, 2-4pm (JOIN HERE)

Led by Dr. Izabela Ragan of Biomedical Sciences, these drop-in virtual writing sessions help writers set a regular time for proposal writing and provide low-stakes accountability.

Grant Writing Retreats

February 17th, 8:30am-4pm (JOIN HERE)

April 21st, 8:30am-4pm (JOIN HERE) 

Each retreat affords grant writers up to 5 hours of dedicated prep and writing time, expert speaker presentations, and afternoon writing breakout discussion sessions. Retreats are a great opportunity for researchers to make significant progress on a proposal in a collegial environment.

Proposals at the Sentence Level

March 23rd, 2:00–2:50pm (JOIN HERE)

A webinar co-led by Dr. Jeff Wilusz (MIP) and Dr. Kristina Quynn to examine what makes proposals succeed or fail and why at the sentence-level.

Register here.

show up & write. Spring 2023

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“Be messy and complicated and afraid and show up anyway.”
– Glennon Doyle Melton

Welcome back to campus, writers! The Spring 2023 semester is officially in session. Campus is buzzing with excitement and our calendars are rapidly filling with classes, meetings, and other engagements. We’ll get to our writing projects at some point, right? Showing up to write definitely helps.

WHAT IS show up & write. ?

show up & write. is a drop-in writing initiative that helps researchers and graduate students to prioritize writing in their schedules and build momentum on projects over a semester. Each session lasts for 2 hours and are scheduled from 8-10, 10-12, 12-2, and 2-4 Monday through Friday.

The sessions are proctored by a CSU faculty member, postdoc, or graduate student volunteer who has committed to proctor and write during that time so that they, too, can make steady progress on their projects. Sessions take place on campus in the Visual Arts building studio H112 and virtually via a Teams meeting.

You can expect each session to begin with a few minutes to get settled and set goals for the session. Then writers… well … write.

show up & write. FOR INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS

If you are an international writer, International Writes will be hosting a session on Wednesdays from 3:30-5:30 in Student Services RM 133.

SIGN UP TO PROCTOR

If you are interested in the additional accountability that proctoring a session offers, let us know by completing the form at the bottom of our webpage HERE.

THE SCIENCE OF show up & write.

Writing—regardless of discipline, writer’s skill level, or genre complexities—can be challenging. For individual researchers and academics who juggle many professional duties, the challenges of creating the time and space to write can be equally great, if not greater, than the very task of writing itself. Education scholar and research dean, Rowena Murray (2015) points out that writing can feel solitary but that it is mostly relational. “Social writing” or write-together sessions, according to Murray, can be instrumental for “changing writing behaviours” positively and for facilitating a complex “management of competing tasks” (p. 134). show up & write. is a dedicated space on campus for writers to engage in these write-together sessions, have a cup of coffee, and make progress on their writing projects.

All at CSU are welcome to show up & write. This is an inclusive campus space where we come together to support each other as writers. You can be a chemist working on a grant proposal, a graduate student working on a thesis, or a staff member working on a novel — you are welcome here!

write early. often. better. together.

International Writes Spring 2023

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January 25th–May 3rd, 2023 (Wednesdays 3:30-5:30PM)

Student Services Building 209 (See Graduate School front desk for access)

Drop in writing sessions for non-native English speakers.

For graduate students, postdocs, and visiting researchers whose first language is not English.

Show up, write, ask questions, and receive individualized feedback about your writing in a group-writing space.

Each Tuesday session starts with a short, introductory conversation after which writers work on their projects and can ask questions as needed.

Faculty Proctor: Tiffany Daigle

CSU Writes is a writing facilitation program designed for researchers and academic writers who are interested in boosting their productivity as they develop a sustainable writing practice.

4-Hour Article Draft Workshop Spring 2023

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A workshop designed to help writers produce an article draft in 4 hours.*

*2000-3000 word article

Open to all CSU research and scholarly writers.

We will be bold and explore what is possible, together!

To view the introductory Information Session (16-minutes) click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ5RXdrNHyA

Drafting Session #1

February 23d, 11:30am–2:00pm, Zoom

Paced writing segments. Session includes e 30 minutes of prep and 2 hours of paced drafting time with a session leader.

Drafting Session #2

March 2nd, 11:30am–2:300pm, Zoom

This session continues with paced writing segments. The goal is for attendees to leave this session with a draft of a 2000-3000+ word manuscript.

Register here.

Electronic Thesis & Dissertation (ETD) Information Session Spring 2023

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TUESDAY, FEB 14 at 10-10:50am on TEAMS

Have Questions about ETD?

Have your ETD questions addressed before you feel the pressures of deadlines! Attend this information session to get a jump start on formatting your thesis/dissertation.

This session covers the submission process in ProQuest, required Graduate School paperwork, the basics of copyright for theses and dissertations, as well as information on navigating CSU’s online resources.

Session Speakers

  • Helen Baer, Head of Digital Repositories Unit, CSU Libraries
  • Khaleedah Thomas, Scholarly Communication Librarian
  • Jennifer Wang, Student Services Coordinator, Grad School

Register here.