Technology is a growing part of our lives - but how can it help graduate school level academic writing? These slides help you, the graduate student, be more efficient

1. Exploiting Rapid
Change in Technology
Enhanced Learning
… for Post Graduate Education
Using Technology to Increase Your Academic Writing Skills

2. A dream doesn't become reality through
magic; it takes sweat, determination and
hard work.
Colin Powell

3. Help masters and doctoral students be
more productive.
By giving you tools the tools you need 24/7
so you can be completely comfortable
throughout your academic process,
Through building skills and
Helping you maintain motivation.
THEORETICAL BASE: SOCIALIZATION

4. AGENDA For Becoming a Writer
1. No Silver Bullet
2. Good writers are great readers
1.What: How to read efficiently
2.Critical thinkers
3.More links
3. Good writers know themselves and what they want to say
1.Proper use of citations/references/other’s ideas
4.Willing to do the tough work of rewrites/edits/reviews
5.Rough spots – what to expect?
6. The personal traits that will stand you in good stead

5. No Silver Bullet
Write – Read out loud – Rewrite – Read Out loud – Rewrite – have someone
else edit and watch for patterns
Some technology:
1. Dragon
2. Read it to you
1. Speak it extension for chrome, also voice instead,
etc.
2. TTS reader for android
3. http://www.naturalreaders.com/index.html
4. http://www.readthewords.com/
3. Grammar help
1. Grammarly chrome extension (+ others)
2. https://www.slickwrite.com/#!critique/features

6. Good Writers are Great Readers
Groups help with this
1. Do you read dissertations? ?thesis?? Journal articles?
1. It’s a cognitive function
What fires together wires together so working in groups
fires our memory patterns in more ways that working
alone does – and we retain it more

7. Good Writers Know Themselves and
What They Want to Say
1. Folders, Themes, Groups
2. Places for notes, abstracts
3. To which you attached pdfs
4. Which can also be highlighted
5. Highlighted sections sorted in spreadsheets until you
know instinctively how they run together under the
headings you need.
GOOD BIBLIOGRAPHIC SOFTWARE / sorted in a spreadsheet / aimed at
your topic

8. Willing to do the Tough Work of
Rewrites/Edits/Reviews
Rows are the references
Columns are themes, including methodology they used in
their study
Rows are used for their ideas/your ideas churned up by their
ideas/ quotes you might like to use
Your process while reading is the rows
Your process while writing is contained in the columns
Gaps come to light when you read the columns
SPREADSHEET ANALYSIS OF THEMES / IDEAS

9. Rough Spots – What to Expect?
TIME ISSUES + WHAT MAKES REVIEW HARD
1. Write – Read out loud – Rewrite – Read Out
loud – Rewrite – have someone else edit and
watch for patterns – ALL THIS takes longer than
you thought/probably have
2. Time management an issue
3. Imposter syndrome or fixed mindset

10. The Personal Traits that will Stand
You in Good Stead
1. Regular writing habit – 6 days a week at least 30
minutes a day minimum
2. Non-defensiveness in the face of criticism
3. Growth mindset
PERSISTENCE AND RESILIENCE WIN THE DAY/MONTH/YEAR!

11. What’s Up at DoctoralNet?
1. Fridays – quick technology examples per topic:
Nov 4th 6. develop your writing plan
Nov 11th 7. what goes where tools
Nov 18th 8. keep your motivation up
Nov 25th 9. design and implementation of your data collection
2. Webinars through December – Phase 1, 2, and 3, covered each month
1. November 8th – What Goes Where: The Purpose of Each Chapter
2. November 15th- Time Management for Each Phase of the Thesis
3. November 29th – Discussing Your Findings: A Qualitative Case Study
4. December 6th – Theoretical and Conceptual Frameworks
5. December 13th - Organization for 2017: Moving Your Thesis Forward
3. Groups! – alternate Tuesdays – Read Listen Comment (Improve Your Writing &
4 Lingerers (Get Your Thesis Moving Again)
4. Special pricing for year’s membership ends Oct 31st 47.50 IN YOUR CURRENCY