Genre Writing of your Discipline
Two-hour interactive workshop with a focus on the genre conventions of your discipline
About this Event
Workshop Title: Research Writing, Activity Systems, and Networks
Format: This interactive workshop will take place in person/face-to-face.
Venue: TU Dublin Grangegorman Campus Central Quad Room CQ-211 Lecture Room .
Numbers are capped and registration in Eventbrite is required.
This face-to-face interactive workshop allows participants to focus on learning about the concept of "activity system`[s]" under the expert guidance of Dr. Rachel Riedner (Read Dr. Riedner's short bio below). It also offers TU Dublin's postgraduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with other research students in the College of Arts& Humanities.
Target Group: TU Dublin's PhD /Postgraduate Students College of Arts& Humanities.
Workshop Description:
This workshop PhD introduces students to the concept of an “activity system[s]”– the networks of relationships, modes of written communication, spaces of learning and interaction, and tasks and actions that advanced researchers participate in and contribute to. Understanding the activity systems where knowledge is developed and circulated provides PhD students the framework to understand where, how, and why to become engaged and impactful professional researchers.
Within the framework of an activity system, this workshop focuses on written communicative practices. The workshop offers practical writing strategies for students to demonstrate their awareness of and participation in an activity system.
This workshop will be facilitated by Dr. Rachel Riedner.
Dr. Rachel Riedner is Professor of Writing and Women’s Studies at the George Washington University in Washington, DC where she serves as Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies. She is a scholar of feminist rhetorical theory, feminist activisms, and teaches first year writing modules and graduate level modules on global feminisms. Over the past few years, Dr. Riedner has collaborated with STEM colleagues to integrate writing into course design and curriculum, including in GW's Physics Department. This interest in writing in STEM has led to a NSF grant that explores identity formation through writing in engineering education. Her focus in her dean's role is on integrating a diversity perspective into all areas of liberal arts education. Dr. Riedner has led writing workshops at six Irish higher education institutions as well as universities in South Africa, Norway, and the US. Rachel is the author of two books, multiple peer reviewed articles, and is the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant that studies writing and judgment in engineering curriculum.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
TU Dublin Grangegorman Central Quad Room CQ-211 Lecture Room, Grangegorman Lower, Dublin 7, Ireland
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