Workshop Information

COVID-19 UPDATE: All of the workshops can be delivered live via Zoom or Google Hangouts or as a series of pre-recorded videos with interactive materials.

Want to schedule a one on one phone call or Zoom? Email tulley@findlay.edu

Interested in a workshop at your institution or academic writing help?

Workshops are interactive and designed to help faculty and students use strategies learned in the workshop independently in the future. In addition, many tools and resources will be shared through access to a password protected repository for continued support after the workshop. See photo gallery below.

Workshops offered:

Time Management/Academic Productivity

Time management for academics (how to increase scholarly productivity while teaching effectively and efficiently)

Scholarship kick offs and bursts for faculty writing retreats (useful for setting up how faculty writers can use writing retreat time most effectively and offering small refocusing activities throughout)

Time crunched faculty support (how to write in very short bursts occasionally through the week to complete a project with a full schedule)

Sabbatical coaching (weekly phone call or online sessions, along with revising and editing help, to help faculty complete projects during sabbaticals)

Scholarly Communication

Rethinking scholarly communication librarians as partners versus support

Navigating open access/open science developments in scholarly publishing

Using Twitter to support and promote scholarship

Promoting scholarship through partnerships with university libraries and scholarly publishers

Writing for open access publications

Faculty and Graduate Writing Support

Faculty writing group coaching (useful for starting or re-energizing a faculty writing group)

Faculty writing support within traditional writing center spaces (cost effective implementation strategies and/or in house workshops with faculty)

Strategies for addressing writer’s block and lack of motivation

Doctoral/postgraduate writing seminar (how to transition from a graduate student writer to a new faculty writer who must maintain regular scholarly productivity)

Thesis and Dissertation writing training for faculty supervisors (workshop for faculty who supervise students that teaches how to help students actually do the writing, stay focused, and complete projects)

Training for graduate writing center tutors in tutoring practices for graduate students specifically, including markers of academic writing in a variety of disciplines and strategies to overcome writing blocks

Academic writing moves that level up scholarly writing and increase chances of publication

Writing reflective statements for tenure and promotion

Virtual writing retreats

Workshops have been conducted at University of Leeds, Gannon University, Bowling Green State University, Ohio State University, University of North Georgia, Middle Tennessee State University, University of New Haven, Ohio Northern University and more.

Workshops can be done in an hour, a half day, or a full day format. Individual writing coaching is also available. For more information and fees, please email Christine Tulley at tulley@findlay.edu

Recent and Upcoming Talks:

European Association for Teaching Academic Writing – July 2021

Textbook and Academic Authors Association – June 2021

Defend and Publish Webinars on Writing Project Management and Overcoming Writer’s Block – Spring 2021

Sam Houston State University – March 2021

Florida Gulf Coast University – February 2021

Stockton University “Balancing Multiple Writing Projects” – Faculty Academic Writing Network Day – February 2021

Textbook & Academic Authors Association – October 2020

London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research – February 2020

Researcher to Reader – February 2020

Ohio Northern Faculty Development Day – January 2020

Cleveland Archivists Roundtable – October 2019

International Writing Centers’ Association – October 2019

Association for Learned and Professional Society Publishers – September 2019

Researcher to Reader Peer Review Workshop – February 2020 (see a review of this workshop here)

Ohio Northern University, Faculty Writing Retreat – January 2020

University of North Georgia, CTLL Faculty Writing Retreat – pictures below courtesy of Peggy Cozart