Soft Skills Training for Graduate Students: Strategies for Writing Research Articles
About the Workshop
Developing your ability to write clear, convincing research articles is an important part of your graduate experience. Exactly how to develop this ability, however, might feel anything but obvious. This workshop was designed to demystify your writing-development process by exploring the rhetorical logic of research articles, offering solutions to common problems associated with writing research articles, and sharing concrete strategies you can adapt to your own article-writing context. Our discussion was grounded in authentic examples and will include room for your questions related to writing about research for scholarly publication.
Key Learning Outcomes
Participants left the workshop with:
- Knowledge of how to structure written claims in research articles from a reader-centered perspective.
- Greater awareness of how and when to use hedging and boosting language in research articles.
- A better understanding of how to achieve a consistent research narrative across sections of a research article.
About the Presenter
Fiona Coll is Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Studies in Transdisciplinary Engineering Education and Practice (ISTEP) and Graduate Centre for Academic Communication (GCAC).
Her research focuses on graduate writing pedagogy, exploring the role that affect plays in writing-skill development, the impact of peer-based learning strategies on individual writing practices, and the history of technologically mediated approaches to writing. She is co-editor of Writing Together: Building Social Writing Opportunities for Graduate Students, forthcoming in January 2025.