Virtual Workshops & Writing Retreats ProgramTAA can help your faculty move from writing to publication by sponsoring an expert-led, virtual academic writing workshop or writing retreat!Each year, TAA co-sponsors a limited number of virtual writing workshops and writing retreats at universities and colleges across the U.S. These workshops are offered on a first-come first-served basis until program funding has been exhausted. Especially in light of budget cuts at colleges and universities, TAA’s support of these events helps enable institutions to continue providing professional development workshops to faculty.
Institution Fee: $1,000 per virtual workshop. Writing retreat costs vary depending on presenter. Interested in scheduling a workshop on your campus? Contact [email protected] Virtual Academic Writing Workshops & RetreatsTwo-Hour Workshop by Tara Gray, Associate Provost for Faculty Development and Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, New Mexico State UniversityPublish & Flourish: Become a Prolific ScholarTriple your productivity. Publish in better journals and get more grants. Write prose that is clearer, better organized, and more compelling. Many grant, book, and journal writers are educated at the School of Hard Knocks, but it’s not the only school, or even the best. Even when you can’t work harder, there are important ways to work smarter. Much is known about how to become a better, more prolific scholar—and anybody can.Workshop participants who followed these steps were studied and 95% of almost 100 participants reported that their writing improved. The average participant also increased the number of grant proposals and manuscripts submitted from a rate of two per year to nearly six. You can too. Ten elegantly simple steps will show you how. Learn more 90-Minute or Two-Hour Workshops by Erin McTigue, President, The Positive Academic, Writing and Productivity Coach for AcademicsEfficiency with Style: Revising Your Manuscript at the Macro & Micro Levels![]() Fast-writing and “allowing messy drafts” is often recommended as a productivity strategy for academics. But … how do we most efficiently transform the resulting messes into coherent and powerful prose? In this interactive workshop, participants will take a “messy draft” of their choice and try out 3 macro-level revision strategies to hone overall logic and organization of the manuscript. Next, participants, working at the micro-level, will apply 3 revision tools for coherence and writing style. Participants will leave with both a sequential approach and individual tools for transforming their future drafts with efficiency. Learn more Moving from Pesky to Productive: Designing a Healthy, Sustainable Writing Habit“Darn -- that pesky writing habit!” Wait, when have you heard a writer say that? While faculty are generally wanting good writing habits and research on productive faculty points to adopting such writing habits, these habits can be difficult to achieve. Meanwhile, complicating the situation further, myths about habit formation circulate. In this interactive workshop, mythology is dispelled and findings from recent psychology research are translated specifically to writing habits. Using personal insight, participants first analyze one of their own already strong habits (coffee drinking, toothbrushing, etc.). Learn more Project Management for Writing: Gaining Power in the ProcessIt’s 3 a.m.. Are you waking up to worry about a forgotten deadline to one of your grants or writing projects? Or perhaps, you exhibit such chronic optimism about your ability to get writing done, that your calendar has begun to resemble a “wish list” instead of an accurate plan? And then, of course, … managing collaborators … despite seemingly endless meetings, you find yourself chasing them down to get their contributions. If these descriptions sound like your current status quo, consider: Would you prefer to have a planning approach that moves you to a state of better focus, clarity and calmness? If yes, then join for an overview of applying project management principles to one’s academic writing life. Learn more Two-Hour Virtual Workshops by Dannelle D. Stevens, Professor of Curriculum and Instruction, Portland State University![]() Leveraging Your Experience: Write More, Publish More, Stress LessThis workshop is designed to give participants an opportunity to practice a powerful set of research-based strategies. You will use powerful tools to boost your productivity including text-structure analysis, templates for making an academic argument, and methods for creating small faculty writing groups that can improve your writing accountability as well as your journal article production. Learn more Demystify the Language of the 'Academic Tribe' and Join the ConversationThis workshop will focus on three key strategies designed to translate the “language of the academic tribe”, such as analyzing text structures and using academic writing templates. Insights from these translations lead to establishing a satisfying writing practice and a prolific publication profile. Participants will learn the habits of successful academic writers, how to analyze the unique language of academic writing, and how to increase productivity and confidence through strategic action. Learn more You Can Also Choose Two 60-Minute Mini-Workshops:
Three-Hour Virtual Writing RetreatThis three-hour retreat provides faculty the opportunity to focus on their writing projects while gaining inspiration and support from fellow academic authors. With guidance from academic writing coach Dannelle Stevens, participants will begin by setting realistic goals and warm up with a focused freewrite. Following that, Dannelle will facilitate group discussion, small group breakouts, and three dedicated writing sessions. Learn more Two-Hour Workshops by Christine Tulley, Professor of English and Founder/Director of the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing, The University of FindlayTime Management for Academics: How to Increase Scholarly Productivity While Teaching Effectively and Efficiently![]() Making time to write can be a struggle for faculty with heavy teaching loads. Writing for publication is often pushed off as faculty work to stay on top of student grading and responding to student emails. Yet many faculty publish regularly because they have developed a writing system that enables them to find time and use it productively. In this interactive workshop, participants will be invited to identify specific teaching tasks that infringe on writing time. Next, participants will be taught to use a combination of “pattern teaching” and grading “templates” that efficiently shorten these tasks without sacrificing effectiveness in order to preserve more time for writing for publication. In addition, we will review academic writing moves that can level up scholarly writing and increase chances of publication. Using this combination of strategies, participants will create and leave with a weekly framework of a writing/teaching system that safeguards time for scholarly productivity and prioritizes scholarly writing. Learn more Effective Academic Collaboration: How to Solicit, Strengthen, and Survive Collaborative Projects, Presentations, and PublicationsIn this interactive workshop, participants will be invited to identify specific challenges that affect productive writing collaborations. Next, participants will be taught specific techniques to begin or revise collaborative work with a focus on five key areas: initiating a collaborative project (grant, conference presentation, article, textbook, etc.), dividing up collaborative work, deciding on the collaborative writing process, managing deadlines, and problem solving for collaborative work challenges. Learn more Developing an Academic Media Presence on Websites and Social MediaDeveloping a “media identity” is increasingly important for academics as universities seek to promote academic research as publicly relevant. In addition, as scholarly journals proliferate it is increasingly difficult to find readers for scholarship. Developing a cohesive “academic” media presence can address both issues. In this interactive workshop, participants will identify types of academic media they already have and use, and compare promotions of academic work across platforms such as Twitter, Google Scholar, YouTube and more. Next, participants will be taught specific techniques to promote academic research (and if desired, teaching) that can be used across various platforms and identify 2-3 main platforms to use to promote scholarship along with times during the semester to keep these platforms updated. Learn more Two-Hour Virtual Workshops by Dr. Tracey S. Hodges, Owner and Chief Creative Officer, The Empowering Advocate LLC
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