Spring Writing Breakfast for Researchers
What are your writing goals this year? Do you have an action plan on how you are going to achieve them and when you are going to get all that writing done?
Peers are essential to be successful with all your writing goals! Join our weekly researcher writing groups!
To start the semester, we offer our popular writing breakfast again, and the two convenors invite you to brainstorm with them what the Friday writing group should look like in 2025:
- 08:45 arrival & mingling around the buffet
- 09:00-09:45 Input by Dzenana Pupic and Gabriela Hofer (convenors of the Friday Writing Group), brainstorming on how to shape the group going forward (as well as eating!)
- 10:00 two writing sessions (with breaks)
Register for the breakfast until Wed, Mar 19, via postdoc(at)uni-graz.at
Location: PostDoc Office / Research Careers Campus, Leechgasse 42, ground floor
Background: The Researchers' Writing Group
“Studies show that an effective way to write in academia is to set a dedicated, defensible time slot for writing. But setting schedules is different from sticking to them (all the more so with home-office). Writing in a group has many benefits: it provides accountability that helps stick to that schedule, social support, and community for sharing experiences and best practices with others. In the group, we report how far along we are with our weekly writing goals outside the group and we set our writing goals for the current slot. The hardcore writing slot is just that: turn off the phone and email and just write. In the outro we reward ourselves for the hard work, socialize, share writing experiences and best practices, and - importantly - commit to our goals until the next meeting.”
The idea for this format is inspired by Ch. 4 in Silvia, P. J. (2007). How to write a lot: A practical guide to productive academic writing. American Psychological Association.