Abstract
Academic writing can often appear dry, disconnected and fail to reach its target audience. Researchers are frequently urged to ‘tell a story’ in everything from their PhD applications to Research Excellence Framework case studies to grant proposals. Techniques used in creative writing, where story is paramount, can help participants. ‘The Hero’s Journey’ is a highly useful tool to help participants find the narrative in their own work. It is particularly effective when combined with ‘the ABT’ approach described by R. Olson in his book ‘Houston - we have a narrative’ both of which are used to develop movie scripts and which, in turn, are based upon Aristotle’s three-act structure that is still found in most narrative writing today.
By the end of the workshop, you should be better able to:
• Learn how to use the ABT method devised by Randy Olson and used to create Hollywood movie scripts to…
• Improve your academic writing so that it has a narrative and thus…
• Will be highly impactful, and enable you to connect with your reader and impart the message you want it to.
Date & Time 27 August 2024 (Tuesday) 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm (HKT)
Format Online via Zoom
Target audience CUHK Academic staff
Speaker
Dr Sanjida O’Connell, Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow, UK
Dr Sanjida O’Connell is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. She studied zoology at the University of Bristol before completing a PhD at University College London. She’s written scientific papers, numerous feature articles for national newspapers and magazines, scripts for TV documentaries, contributed to encyclopaedias and had columns in The Times, The Independent and BBC Wildlife magazine.
Sanjida had twelve books published, including four works of non-fiction, four works of literary fiction and four thrillers. She has been shortlisted for the BBC Asia Awards, the Betty Trask Award for Romantic Fiction, the Daily Telegraph Science Writer's Award, Asian Woman of the Year, highly commended for BBC Wildlife Magazine's Award for Nature Writing, long listed for the CWA Steel Dagger Award and had her first thriller nominated as one of the best crime and thriller books of 2016 by the Guardian and the Sunday Express. Sanjida was a wildlife presenter for the BBC and now writes full time, as well as running writing workshops for universities and teaching and mentoring creative writing.
Enquiry
For any queries, please contact Ms Vienne LIN at viennelin@cuhk.edu.hk.
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