Writing for Publication in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Aims

Before you register, watch this overview of what to keep in mind before you join the workshop and what you can expect during the sessions.

Writing publications in correct, clear, coherent and convincing language is a vital competence that can be acquired. In this hands-on workshop you develop that competence and generate submittable text through structured collaborative write – review – revise cycles.

Content

This series of three workshops, offers you the opportunity to try out which writing strategies suit you
best. They expand the language you use to relate your research to existing knowledge; to describe
processes, methods and data; to narrate change; and to construct cogent arguments. They familiarize
you with current developments in academic style concerning, for example gender, the use of first
person and passive. And they develop your competence to give and respond to peer feedback that
improves drafts.

Methods

• When you start the workshop series, you should already have a first draft that you can turn into a
submittable manuscript. A less ideal alternative is to start with data and/or a concept only. In the
latter case, you can use the course to create a draft.
• You must submit an extract from, or written abstract for the text on which you want to work during
the workshops at least three weeks before the first session, length: 250 to 600 words.
• During the workshop series you will receive a manual that will familiarize you with various features
of scholarly writing, such as those listed in the contents above.
• During the workshops you will analyze successful texts in your discipline and learn how to emulate
their strengths in your own writing.
• The workshop meetings consist of short input sessions, followed by cycles of writing, reviewing
and revising.

Target Group

All Doctoral Candidates of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Theology

Requirements

Submit written abstracts or extracts to stephan.meyer@unibas.ch by Friday 28 February 2025.

About the Trainer

Stephan Meyer: Lecturer for academic publication and presentation at the Language Center of the University of Basel (Research Gate)

Workload

Total: 30 hours
1 ECTS credit for preparing, writing, reviewing and revising

Feature

This course is reserved for doctoral candidates of the Faculy of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Faculty of Theology.

Once registration is open, applications will be collected for 24 hours and course places allocated by lot. All registrations received after the initial 24h period will be put on a waiting list and assigned on a first come, first served basis.

Course places/places on the waiting list will be confirmed by e-mail. Course registrations can only be canceled before the registration period ends (send an e-mail to grace@unibas.ch). Full course attendance is mandatory. Participants who fail to attend a course without prior notification or withdraw after the registration deadline are subject to a fee of CHF 30. In addition, participants who cancel their course registration at a later point in time, are absent without an excuse or do not attend the entire course will, for reasons of fairness, not be considered for course registration in the following semester and will be removed from other courses offered in the same semester. Please find the detailed regulations on the Transferable Skills Homepage.