The UF Graduate Student Council (GSC) invites you to two GSC workshops on research and publishing, featuring guest expert and award-winning SUNY Stony Brook professor of writing and rhetoric Dr. Shyam Sharma:
Reading Strategically, Developing Your Research Agenda
Friday, November 7, 2014
1 p.m to 2:30 p.m.
Terrace Room G400
Norman Hall
Can you read 20 academic articles in four hours? How about developing solid ideas for your own research paper while reading those articles effectively?
Practical Skills for Academic Publication
Monday, November 10, 2014
10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Reitz Union Auditorium
How can graduate students publish more? What writing skills increase your chances of your work being accepted by academic journals?
Dr. Shyam Sharma is a professor of writing and rhetoric at SUNY Stony Brook University in New York. A former international student and recipient of many awards including the K. Patricia Cross Award for Future Leaders of American Higher Education, he specializes in the research and teaching of academic and professional writing to international students especially at the graduate level and especially in the STEM fields. He is currently working on a book that seeks to document best practices in this area across US universities.
For a downloadable, printable PDF flyer for these two workshops, click here: http://graduateschool.ufl.edu/files/gsc-workshops.pdf
