Spring 2025 Grant Writing Workshop & Retreat
Date
Monday May 5, 20259:00 am - 4:00 pm
Remembering the Reader: Creating Higher Value in Academic Writing
Clarity in academic writing is good; concision is good; logical organization is good. But none of these matter if your writing is not seen by readers to be valuable to them. Commonly it’s thought that value is a matter not of writing but of content; make the writing clear and logical, and value will take care of itself. In fact, successful academic texts—including successful grant applications—rely on a host of writing techniques specific to value, and not just communicating value, but also creating it.
In this three-hour workshop (9 am to 12:15 pm) Larry McEnerney will lead participants through essential techniques for creating value. Following lunch, participants are invited to return to the workshop room from 1 pm to 4 pm for silent writing time.
Research Project Advisors will also be available for one-on-one or small-group consultations in twenty-minute blocks.
Meet our presenter
Now retired, Larry McEnerney was for 30 years the director of the writing program at the University of Chicago. Chicago's program specializes in the most advanced academic and professional writing, working extensively with faculty, postgraduate fellows, and graduate students. Larry continues to consult worldwide for universities, research institutes, academic societies, journals, governments, and funding agencies, as well as for individual scholars and scientists.
Program:
- 8:30 Continental breakfast
- 9:00 Opening remarks and land acknowledgement
- 9:05 Grant writing workshop, part 1
- 10:00 Coffee-break
- 10:15 Grant writing workshop, part 2
- 12:15 Lunch
- 1:00 Quiet writing time
- 4:00 End of day
Individual meetings with RPAs will be available by request in the afternoon.
Questions?
Contact Adrian Kelly.