PhD Writing Workshops and Courses
Available to all Monash PhD candidates, these workshops and courses are designed to equip you with powerful academic writing and presentation skills.
On successful completion, participants enrolled in the Monash Doctoral Program will qualify for professional development (PD) hours as listed here.
To access the registrations and check for upcoming dates and times, please log in to your myDevelopment portal using your Monash account.
If you find that a workshop is currently not offered, or is fully booked, you can express your interest in future sessions on myDevelopment by clicking on the 'notify me' button.
Intensive writing courses
These 10-part writing courses are designed to teach you powerful writing skills you can employ in your writing. Each session includes activities and discussions, and is followed by a weekly quiz to help you practice and consolidate your learning.
Time Each session consists of a 1 hour Zoom workshop, plus 1 hour of self-study for review, preparation and assessment
DateDuration: 10 weekly sessions, offered once a semester
AvailabilityAvailability: check myDevelopment portal
Professional developmentProfessional development hours: 20 PD hours (Professionalism, Innovation & Career)
Intensive Writing Course for Science Communication
Register for this award-winning 10-part writing course designed to teach you powerful writing skills you can employ in your scientific writing to comprehensively improve writing accuracy, clarity, and impact. Each session teaches a single writing concept reinforced by examples and discussion.
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Intensive Writing Course for Humanities and Social Sciences
Register for this award-winning 10-part writing course designed to teach you powerful writing skills you can employ in your academic writing to comprehensively improve writing accuracy, clarity, and impact. Each session teaches a single writing concept reinforced by examples and discussion.
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Literature review workshops
The function of a literature review in any discipline is for you to situate your research within the body of existing literature. Student Academic Success offers two different workshops that approach literature reviews from a disciplinary-specific perspective.
Time Duration: 2 hour Zoom session
Date Availability: check the myDevelopment portal
Professional development hours Professional development hours: Two PD hours (Excellence in Research & Teaching)
Writing Effective Literature Reviews in STEMM
This workshop introduces you to strategies to create a logical and coherent structure that reflects your understanding of the research area; and argue for the significance of your project while building on the ideas of others. Using STEMM examples, this session will allow you to evaluate your approach to the literature review and select strategies that will be most effective for your purpose.
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Writing a Literature Review in the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
This workshop introduces you to strategies to organise and critically review the ideas and arguments within existing research in the field, and position your own research in relation to it. Using examples from the Humanities and Social Sciences this session will allow you to identify approaches to integrating sources, building arguments and developing your voice as a researcher.
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