Academic Writing: Entering the Conversation
Webinar Overview
Academic Writing: Entering the Conversation is created to provide graduate students with the tools needed to achieve success in all forms of academic writing. After an overview of the importance of understanding audience, purpose, and context in terms of shaping a text, we will dive into the writing process with a focus on grad school-specific writing demands and best practices as well as considering the idea of academic writing as a conversation.
Objectives
- Participants will be able to identify key elements (audience, purpose, genre) of academic texts and will be able to incorporate best practices within graduate writing into their own work.
- Participants will develop an understanding of writing as a recursive process and consider how each phase of the process is interwoven; further, participants will consider writing as a conversation and how their own writing can add to the existing academic conversation.
This Webinar is hosted by the Graduate Nursing Student Academy (GNSA). For more information on the GNSA, visit www.aacnnursing.org/GNSA.
Speakers
Brent Cameron
Professional Writing Specialist
Purdue University Writing Lab
Brent Cameron is a Professional Writing Specialist at the Purdue University Writing Lab. In 2022, he received his master’s degree in English Studies at East Carolina University (ECU), where he worked both as a Writing Center Consultant and an instructor of Record, teaching several sections of First-Year Writing and Writing in the Disciplines. Brent also worked as a teaching assistant in the Engineering Communications program at Virginia Tech, where he co-taught several undergraduate technical writing courses and tutored students on a one-to-one basis. Beyond having a passion for teaching writing (and writing in general), Brent’s scholarly interests include, Writing Across the Disciplines, Cultural Rhetorics, and 19th-century literature.
Matt Del Busto
Professional Writing Specialist
Purdue University Writing Lab
Matt Del Busto is a Professional Writing Specialist at the Purdue University Writing Lab. He received his MFA in poetry in 2022 from the University of Michigan, where he taught composition and creative writing. In 2022-23, he was a Postgraduate Fellow in Creative Writing at Michigan and taught composition at Washtenaw Community College, where he also was a faculty tutor in the writing center. He’s interested in nearly all things related to writing and the teaching of writing, most especially creative writing pedagogy, sustainable writing practices, and the intersection of academic and creative writing.
Pricing and CE Credit
This webinar is free to deans, faculty, staff and students from AACN member schools of nursing. All non-member audiences will be required to pay a $59 webinar fee.
Continuing Education Credits:
Eligible attendees may receive one continuing nursing education (CNE) contact hour for participating in this webinar. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) is an accredited CNE-provider by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.