Writers' Retreat Online 2022

All HSE writers, unite!

If you have a spare weekend on December 16-18, join the AWC Writer’s Retreat online. The HSE Academic Writing Center (AWC) launches a new project for HSE academics. You will have a unique opportunity to leave aside everything that usually distracts you from writing and dive into the writing process.

What to expect

•  input sessions from Dr. Talinn Phillips, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Writing & Research Center at the College of Arts and Sciences, Ohio University (USA), and Svetlana Suchkova, Ph.D., HSE AWC director

•  writing and rewriting, reading and reviewing papers of others

•  getting feedback from colleagues and instructors.

How to become a group member

•  write a motivation letter (250-300 words)

•  have a rough draft of you research article (Introduction part preferably)

•  fill out the registration form (see the link below).

Make the dates free

December 16, 17:00 – 18:30 (Moscow time)

December 17, 9:30 – 19:00

December 18, 9:30 – 19:00

Format: online via Zoom

The project was successfully completed.

Read more about it here.

We invested a lot of time and effort in preparation to make sure everything would run smoothly, and, judging by our participants’ comments, we succeeded:

I would like to thank the organizers and participants for this unique opportunity. I felt very safe, and it is very important, because typically when I write, I constantly feel guilty for not being perfect, efficient, or productive. This event somehow changed my attitude. I understand the point of the retreat was not providing participants with psychological help, but it was a valuable gain for me.

I would like to express my gratitude to everybody who is connected with such a wonderful project as writers’ retreat. Special thanks to the AWC, who always surprises me with innovative ideas and approaches. The structure of the program was so helpful. It works like a sandwich. ‘Bread’ is writers’ contributions, ‘butter’ is facilitators’ and organizers’ support, and finally ‘cheese’ is input sessions that clarified and polished the way the writers think when they create their masterpieces.

Utterly useful. An independent reader (reviewer) could be more beneficial for the article than 10 hours of writing and rewriting. When people are writing together, some kind of synergy emerges and it motivates people a lot.

Very helpful and useful sources, websites, resources were shared during the last session, thank you once again!