✍️ WORKSHOP: Beyond the Sentence: Structural Editing for Academic Writers w/ Emily Doucet
** This is a LIVE workshop. Attendees will be sent a video recording after the workshop. **
How can academic writers take their work to the next level? How can we harness structure to make academic writing more compelling?
In this 60-minute workshop with academic developmental editor Emily Doucet, writers will learn how to evaluate the structure of their writing and identify areas for improvement. You'll learn how to identify common structural issues, develop strategies for addressing them, and gain insights into crafting a compelling argument that engages readers and makes a lasting impact.
We'll also explore:
Strategies for revising their academic journal articles, book chapters, or book manuscripts
Annotation methods to identify structural problems in their drafts
How to design a revision plan to resolve structural issues
Preparation: Writers should bring a draft manuscript (for example, a journal article or book chapter) that they would like to begin revising.
Please Note:
Early drafts are very welcome.
Ideally, this text will be printed out or in a .pdf format accessible to work with during the workshop.
If working with a .pdf, you must have the document open in an application that allows you to highlight or annotate the text.
Due to the short nature of the workshop, no tech support for annotating on a computer will be available.
If in doubt, print it out! If you are working with printed text, please bring several different coloured writing utensils to mark up the text (coloured pens, pencils, or highlighters will work nicely).
About Emily Doucet
Emily Doucet is an academic developmental editor, writer, and historian of photography and visual culture. As a developmental editor, she runs Framing Devices, offering editorial support for academic writers in the humanities. She holds a Ph. D. in Art History from the University of Toronto. She has published scholarly articles and book chapters, maintains an active practice as an art critic, and has taught undergraduate courses in art history and visual culture at the University of Toronto and at McGill University. She currently co-organizes a working group called Public Writing in the Humanities at the University of Toronto that supports academic authors in honing their craft and experimenting with new writing modalities. She lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, where she is a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University.
✍️ Daily Writing. Inspiring Interviews. Creative Friends.
Join the London Writers' Salon from the comfort of your home.
Join our free daily Writers' Hour writing sessions, intimate interviews and workshops with world-class writers, or become a member to connect with fellow novelists, bloggers, screenwriters, playwrights, poets & more around the world.
Attend Salon Workshops for Free. Become a Member.
By becoming a member of London Writers' Salon, you'll get free access to interviews and workshops like this every week. Plus, you'll join our cosy online community and get expert support and accountability to enhance your craft and publish your best work.
