Description: This course is aimed at library staff who wish to write for publication.

This course has a strong practical element, with participants actively writing throughout the day. Thus it is necessary to come with an idea/topic which you hope to develop into an article/presentation.

Date: 7th May, Venue, Seminar Room I, John Paul II Library, NUI Maynooth
Audience: Library staff who are interested in writing for academic publication

Programme

09.30 – 10.00 Registration and tea/coffee

10.00 – 10.30 Welcome, course outline, getting started

10.30 – 11.30 Experiences of academic writing
Writing from personal experience, writing for peer-reviewed journals, changing/adapting a piece of research into a journal article/book chapter, writing chapters for edited collections, writing/presenting library-related articles/papers to audiences outside the discipline, in-house publishing.
Mary Antonesa (NUIM), Ellen Breen (DCU), Helen Fallon (NUIM).

11.30 – 12.30 Gathering ideas, outlining/ structuring, writing the abstract, titles, keywords
Identifying publishing/dissemination outlets, approaching an editor
Lunch Pugin Hall
1.30 – 2.30 Redrafting the outline, getting into the writing flow
2.30 – 3.30 The View from the editor – Dr. Rob Kitchin (NUIM)
3.30 – 4.00 Overcoming obstacles and setting achievable writing goals

4.00 – 4.30 Questions, Comments, Evaluation