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- 1. writing for acceptance conceptual skills for writing abstracts, papers, presentations Daniel Reeders Senior Project Worker Multicultural Health & Support Service Centre for Culture, Ethnicity & Health ph 03 9432 9700 | [email_address]
- 3. Richard Schiff as Toby Ziegler Helen Garner as herself Two of my favourite writers (one of them real)
- 4. The idea of career also ignores something that my working life has taught me: you write a novel, and you think, good, right, now I know how to write a novel. wrong. You found out how to write that novel; but what you nutted out for that one is not going to help you write the next. Each new bout of work demands a new approach. You have to teach yourself everything afresh, every single time, and then when you’ve learnt that, you have to teach yourself a whole lot more. Helen Garner, “On Turning Fifty” (1992)
- 5. TOBY This is incredibly good, Will. "Never shrinking from the world's..." "...a fierce belief in what we can achieve together." I used to write like this. It was ten months ago. I don't understand what's going on. I really don't. I've had slumps before. Everybody does, but this is different. I'm sorry, we don't know each other, but there aren't that many people I can talk to about it. I don't understand what's happening. There's no blood going to it. I never had to locate it before. I don't even know where to look. I'm the President's voice and I don't want it to sound like this. And there's an incredible history to second inaugurals. "Fear itself," Lincoln... I really thought I was on my way to being one of those guys. I thought I was close. Now I'm just writing for my life and you can't serve the President that way. But if I didn't write... I can't serve him at all. Aaron Sorkin, “Arctic Radar”, The West Wing (Season 4, Episode 10, 2002)
- 6. Develop a writing brief Audience Purpose Tone Style
- 8. Conceptual process http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/About-Design/ managingdesign/The-Study-of-the-Design-Process/ Design Council (UK) 2005 “Double Diamond” model of the divergent and convergent phases of the design process content craft problem solutions
- 10. Discovery idea relevant material brainstorm to expand
- 13. Definition themes angle 1 2 1
- 21. Writing process draft up edit down
- 22. Overall draft up edit down brainstorm selection content craft
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- Activity Give participants 1-2 minutes to think up five words about how writing makes them feel. Go around the room for a reportback. Takehome point Acquiring a new skill feels uncomfortable, unpleasant, awkward, and difficult at first . As you gain experience and your level of skill increases, it feels more comfortable, and you feel confident in your ability to perform the new skill. That feeling of emerging confidence and self-efficacy is a marker of progress and encourages you to continue learning and strengthening your new skill. The reverse is also true – if you continue feeling unsure, unsteady and distressed then you will assume the skill eludes you and you’re bad at that activity; you’re likely to abandon your attempts and discontinue learning the activity. Writing does not follow that pattern. You will never stop feeling challenged by writing. So: you cannot use that feeling as a measure of your skill. If you let that feeling increase on you and escalate into panic, you will end up unable to write – and it can be a vicious circle. Part of the skill and practice of writing is just acknowledging how it makes you feel, and retaining enough emotional self-control to do it anyway and get it done. Feeling tortured about writing is normal. It does not mean that you’re bad at writing or that what you have written is not worth reading. (Unfortunately, neither is the relief that it’s done a reliable indicator that what you’ve written is worth reading.)
- Look at the eyes. These are not relaxed and easy-going people…
- Punchline: Aren’t you glad you don’t write fiction?
- If possible, play the scene from West Wing s04e10 “Arctic Radar”. Punchline: Turns out writing non-fiction isn’t any better. At least, in feeling tortured by writing, you’re in good company. That’s how everyone feels. Toby had a State of the Union address to write. You’ve got a 300 word abstract. It takes a special kind of genius to write – from scratch – a novel or great speech. (Now you know there’s a reason why they call it ‘from scratch’). But an abstract or article has a particular form to it, a skeleton structure you can sketch out ahead of time, so the writing becomes a matter of filling it in and fleshing it out.
- GROUP DISCUSSION Ask about a conference presentation. Audiences? Purposes? Tone & Style? Tone is usually third person professional. Style is confident/dynamic/engaging.
- The double diamond process can help you identify and fix common writing problems. Don’t know where to start – no writing plan Too little material – first half of the first diamond, the Discovery stage, wasn’t expansive enough: focus was too narrow or you stopped too early. Too much material – second half of the first diamond, the Definition stage, wasn’t precise enough: focus was too broad. Abstract has no argument – you didn’t choose an angle.
- Brainstorming Activity Scenario 1 Imagine your table is a working group about student welfare, with staff from different organisations and disciplines. The group has been invited to submit an abstract for an upcoming conference to raise awareness and understanding of the issue of violence against Indian students in Melbourne streets. The audience at the conference will include policy officers, funding people and frontline workers. Scenario 2 Imagine your table is a working group about migrant health, with staff from different organisations and disciplines. The group has been invited to submit an abstract for an upcoming conference to raise awareness and understanding of the social and cultural meanings about hepatitis B screening in Chinese and Vietnamese communities in Melbourne. The audience will include policy officers, funding people and clinical staff (nurses and doctors). Instructions Brainstorm all the issues, topics and ideas you could possibly talk about in a conference presentation based on your scenario. Don’t edit – in practice this means writing down every suggestion, don’t judge its relevance. Appoint a scribe and use black texta on butchers’ paper. Write only 1-2 words for each item you write on the sheet. You will have 15 minutes for this task.
- Your “angle” is how you tell the story – like a contention, thesis or central argument. It’s a term from journalism, where a newspaper writer might be told to take a “human interest” angle in a story about HIV/AIDS, or a “snouts in the trough” angle on a politician’s study tour overseas. After conducting research and interviews, the journalist will use the angle to select material (facts, quotes) to include. Writing without an angle is really hard – it feels directionless.
- Both angles aim to do more than “talk about our project” – which is assuming anybody cares! The first engages with sector discourse around the challenge of “scaling up” effective community-based pilot projects, suggesting in some cases it may be more effective to clearly define the community need and then think about cost-effective ways to meet it. Elizabeth Pisani talks about the problem of “boutique projects” delivering Prada quality in countries where McDonalds quality and reach are needed, pointing out the experts in delivering mediocre service to large numbers of people are governments. The second one is based on the question “What part of this project might be interesting and relevant to a clinician or another educator?” We talked about the design challenges we had encountered in the project, and the discipline we used to solve them, which is HIGHLY relevant to anyone involved in patient education or clinical service planning. Good angles are NOVEL (thought-provoking, maybe a little provocative) and RELEVANT (applicable to people who don’t do your job).
- The goal is to
- + Vocab sheet of connecting words in critical language