Workshop-Reihe mit Dr. Rebecca Schuman: Productive and Rewarding Writing with Digital Tools

A three-day online workshop particularly aimed at graduate and doctoral students writing in English is planned for Friday, 9 September 2022; Friday, 23 September 2022; and Friday, 30 September 2022 from 17:00 - 19:45 (Central European Time).

Dr. Rebecca Schuman is a professor pro tempore of literature at the University of Oregon’s Clark Honors College as well as an instructor of creative writing in the Stanford Continuing Studies program. She received her Ph.D. in German from the University of California at Irvine in 2010 and is the author of the academic monograph Kafka and Wittgenstein: The Case for an Analytic Modernism (Northwestern University Press 2015). She has been an academic-writing coach and productivity specialist since 2013.
Her advice column for the Chronicle of Higher Education “Are You Writing?” has been guiding scholars through the academic writing process since 2018. Read more about Dr. Schuman on her website nihilismforoptimists.com.

Workshop Schedule

Friday, 9 September 2022
17:00-17:30 welcome and introductory work session (participants should be ready to do some writing right away)
17:30-18:00 introductory presentation
18:00-18:10 break
18:10-18:40 question & answer period
18:40-18:45 break
18:45-19:45 workshop on putting together a digital work plan

Friday, 23 September 2022
17:00-17:45 discussion/troubleshooting about work plan success and failure
17:45-17:55 break
17:55-18:15 presentation
18:15-18:45 question & answer period
18:45-19:45 breakout sessions for individual or small group work planning

Friday, 30 September 2022
17:00-17:45 discussion/troubleshooting about Week 2 work plan success and failure
17:45-17:55 break
17:55-18:15 presentation
18:15-18:45 question & answer period
18:45-19:45 final breakout sessions for individual or small group longer-term work planning

To sign up for the workshop and for any further questions, please contact the Schreibzentrum | Writing Center der JMU Würzburg by 31 August 2022: schreibzentrum@uni-wuerzburg.de

The workshops will take place on ZOOM.