CIT 2006 - WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION

TUESDAY, MAY 30, 2006

Publish & Flourish

Instructor: Tara Gray
Director of the Teaching Academy
New Mexico State University

Time: 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: TBA
Rating: Introductory
Cost: $75

In this workshop, participants bring a rough draft of their own writing and learn a technique for getting meaningful feedback from others. Every scholar can become more prolific and these steps will show you how.

Manage Time

• Differentiate between the urgent and the important.
• Write 15-30 minutes daily.
• Keep records of writing daily; share your records weekly.

Write

• Write from the first day of your research project.
• Post your thesis on the wall and write to it.

Revise

• Organize around key sentences.
• Use your key sentences as an after-the-fact outline.

Get Help

• Share early drafts with non-experts and later drafts with experts.
• Learn how to listen.
• Respond to each specific comment.

Polish Your Prose and Let Go

• Read your prose out loud.
• Kick it out the door, and make ’em say “no.”

Registrants are not required to attend CIT to participate in this workshop (although we really think you'll WANT to!). Register for this workshop!

About the Instructor:

TARA GRAY serves as associate professor of criminal justice and as the first director of the Teaching Academy at New Mexico State University (NMSU). The Teaching Academy provides NMSU educators with training, mentoring, and networking.

Tara was educated at the United States Naval Academy, Southwestern College in Kansas and Oklahoma State, where she earned her Ph.D. in economics by asking, “Do prisons pay?” She taught economics at Denison University before joining the Department of Criminal Justice at NMSU. She has published three books, including her most recent, Publish and Flourish: Become a Prolific Scholar. She has been honored at NMSU and nationally with six awards for teaching or service.

Tara has presented faculty development workshops to 2,000 participants in more than twenty of the United States, and in Canada, Mexico, and Thailand. Workshop participants report that she is “spirited, entertaining, and informative—she’s anything but gray!”

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