Hello,

As someone who has signed up for the 2013 Research Week Research Reading and Writing workshop from 3pmto 5pm on TuesdayFebruary 5, I would like to ask youto do some preparation for the workshop:

  1. Bring at least 2 journal articles (hard or soft copies) that you feel are highly relevant to your research, and that you need/want to read, or have already read.
  2. Make sure that they have some kind of overlap in some specific topic areas – if you can’t find any just bring at least 2 that generally cover the same area.
  3. Make a list of at least 20+ key words or descriptors that are relevant to your area of research or your research question (brainstorm them). Once you have the list, look at it and try to group the ones that seem to ‘go together’ in some way. Give those groups some kind of heading or label.

I would like to ask you to answer a few brief questions as well, so I can see any specific areas that might need covering. If you cannot answer any questions below, just leave them blank (this is not a test!)

Please send your replies back by email to before 5pm, Sunday 3 February 2013.

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Your degree program:

The stage you are at:

  1. Have you attended any workshops or had help previously with your research writing or reading from any source? If so when was it, and what was the focus?
  1. What is the purpose/focus of your research or specific research question(s) you are investigating?
  1. How would you describe what you are currently doing (e.g. reading and taking notes, writing initial drafts for your supervisor, re-writing, editing, getting ready for your DA, panicking …)?
  1. What sort of advice or feedback have you had so far from your supervisor (or anyone) about the requirements for developing, writingor reading about your research?
  1. Which aspects of planning or writing in your research area seem to be particularly challenging?

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Thank you for your cooperation with this, and I look forward to working with you!

Kind regards,

Dr. Terry Royce

Senior Lecturer, Research Literacies/Forensic Linguistics

Graduate Research School,

UniversityofTechnology, Sydney (UTS)

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