Writing Your First Year Report (Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences)

Prerequisites

If you’re feeling lost and uncertain about writing your first-year report – or if you want to become a more effective writer – this course has two objectives in its overall aim of helping you to improve your ability to write about your research:

1) To help you understand:

• the requirements of the first-year report;
• the writing process;
• your work patterns as a writer.

2) To help you progress your writing by working through the techniques of:

• writing warm-ups, to quell your internal editor so that you write more freely;
• writing in layers, to help you develop an overall structure to your thesis, so that writing feels less daunting and you take a step towards ending procrastination.

First-year PhD Students in Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences. This course is most effective for those who will soon be starting to write their First-Year Report.
Further details regarding eligibility criteria are available here.

Participants are required to bring a piece of writing of up to 500 words. Further details will be provided in the booking confirmation.

Number of sessions: 1

Participative workshop, comprising information-giving and activities.

One half-day session.

This course runs at least once in Michaelmas term and twice in Lent term. More sessions may become available according to demand.