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Foundations of success in academe:
Research, writing, organization …and reflection
Dannelle D. Stevens, Portland State University
Joanne E. Cooper, University of Hawaii
AERA Professional Development Workshop
San Diego, 2009
AgendaI. IntroductionsII. Challenges: Focused FreewriteIII. Research: Reflection in adult developmentIV. Writing: ListsV. Writing production: Research-based strategies BREAKVI. Journal keeping as a teaching, writing and research
resourceVII. Writing: Dialogue with inner mentorVIII. Writing: Concept-mapping & stickiesIX. Writing: Letter from the future with action planX. Final thoughts….
II. Let’s Write: Focused freewrite
Focused freewrite on
challenges/opportunities
in your current work
III. Research on role of
reflection in adult development
“Our narratives are the means through which we imagine ourselves into the persons we become” (Hopkins, 1994, p. xvii).
III. Research on the role of reflection in
adult learning
“…any writing and reading of our lives presents us with a challenge that is at the heart of every educational experience: making sense of our lives in the world” (Grumet, 1990, p.3).
III. Our Research: Role of Reflection on Professional Life
Academics use journals in their professional lives for:
Organizing Collecting ideas Conversing with themselves Reflecting Examining assumptions (Cooper & Stevens, 2006)
IV. Let’s write: Lists
Lists: Make a list of what you know about academic writing and how to produce it.
V. Writing production: Research-based strategies
Freewriting & Focused Freewriting
Dialogue
Concept Mapping
Becoming a student of writing
Daily writing- even 15 minutes
BREAK! 15 minutes
Meet and greet someone new…
VI. Journal keeping: Teaching, writing & research resource
Formatting the journal
Using for metareflection on teaching or research and….
….. Check the handout for many other ideas
VII. Let’s write: Dialogue
Dialogue:
Write to someone, something,
even some feeling.
Change lines for each speaker.
VIII.Let’s write: Concept mapping
Concept mapping:
Generate ideas.
Cluster. Connect.
Write sentences below.
Organize…… start writing!
IX. Let’s write: Letter from the future
Letter from you to you from 1, 5, 10 years in the future.
Consider your challenges.
Consider an action plan..
X. Final thoughts… There was so much to write. He had seen the
world change; not just the events; although he had seen many of them and watched the people, but he had seen the subtler change and he could remember how the people were at different times. He had been in it and he watched it and it was his duty to write of it.
Hemingway from The Snows of Kilimanjaro (p. 64)
And thank you…from Dannelle & Joanne
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