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ONLINE: Revision Workshop: Strategies for Editing & Revising your dissertation

 

About this workshop

This hands-on workshop aims to present senior post graduate students with understanding the role and purpose of feedback, both peer and supervisory.  The focus of the workshop is in getting to grips with the editing and revising writing process, and aims to provide students with strategies for integrating feedback, as well as techniques to confidently review paragraphing, sentence structure and grammar for clarity, simplicity, and completeness.

 

About the presenter

Ms. Isabella Sinn, Writing Consultant, UCT Writing Centre, CHED

Isabella is a senior Writing Consultant at UCT Writing Centre and has extensive experience in facilitating academic writing and research workshops for all levels of study, this includes facilitating the MMUF Writing Circles and Writing to Post Graduate Completion Seminars.  Isabella completed her MA in Historical Studies, focussing on divorce and the family in the nineteenth-century Cape Colony, and is currently working on further research and publication.

 

What level of study is the workshop aimed at?

Postgraduate Diploma

No

Honours

No

Masters

Yes

PhD

Yes

Postdoctoral Fellow

Yes

Junior Research Fellow

No

 

Which faculty/faculties is the workshop aimed at?

Humanities

Yes

Commerce (including GSB)

Yes

Law

Yes

EBE

Yes

Science

Yes

Health Sciences

Yes

CHED

Yes

 

Requirements

Preparation for the workshop

 Students needs to come prepared with dissertation/chapters that have received comments and feedback, and who are wanting to submit final draft for submission.

Level of participation at the workshop

 Students should be prepared to discuss and share some of your feedback experiences through academic review and scrutiny.  Bring examples and excerpts from proposal and feedback to engage with.
Registration When registering for this workshop, you will be prompted to input your UCT credentials, including UCT e-mail address, for security reasons.  A confirmation e-mail will then be sent to the UCT e-mail address with which you registered.
Date:
Tuesday, October 1, 2024
Time:
10:00am - 1:00pm
Presenter:
Ms. Isabella Sinn, Writing Consultant, UCT Writing Centre, CHED
Categories:
OPGS workshops
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Event Organizer

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Amanda Bessick

 

Contact:

Room 2.04  Level 2 Otto Beit Building

University Avenue, Upper Campus

University of Cape Town

Rondebosch 7700

 

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