OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
Held as part of Academic Writing Month 2022. Find out more at ctl.ox.ac.uk/article/acwrimo-22-academic-writing-month.
This free online workshop will use the metaphor of the Couch to 5K running programme for thinking about writing improvement. It will present the key principles and discuss how we can use them to develop an Academic Writing Boot up programme.
Together we will explore ways in which you can use deliberate practice to improve any aspect of your writing. It will address these topics:
- Writing as a complex skill that can be improved – Importance of fluency to success in writing – Role of working memory and mental representations in fluent writing – Using targeted reflection to identify blockers to writing using the BASE model – Using deliberate repetition to improve any aspect of writing skill.
