Notes on our first meeting

Posted on April 19, 2012 by ipsrwritingclub

We held the first meeting of our writing club on April 18. This is just a brief note to summarize the results of the meeting and to inform those who couldn’t come about the decisions we made:

–Nine people attended (lucky number!), six PhD students and three ajarns.

–We discussed our personal goals for the group. The consensus is that we want to improve our writing in English, to get support for making progress on our dissertations and research articles, and to share knowledge about aspects of writing and publishing.

–We discussed the ground rules for the group and decided the following:

–We’ll continue to meet every two weeks on Wednesday, 13:30-14:30 in room 324

–We will set up the technology for people to join by skype if they cannot attend in       person

–We will leave the composition of the group as it is for now (PhD students, ajarns and researchers), but once we become stable we may break into sub-groups or form new groups (such as for MA students).

–The format will change from meeting to meeting–sometimes one of us will speak on a topic, sometimes we will have guest speakers, sometimes we will do concrete work on writing–but we will always give each person a chance to speak on their progress.

–We will each commit to progress on a certain topic by the next meeting, but the commitment is flexible and some may skip a commitment if they are busy.

–Some members are committing to making structured progress on producing a paper for publication. These members are working on their title and conceptual framework for next time.

–Ramesh shared some tips for getting published. Wow! More on this in a later post.

–We each made a commitment for the next meeting. I’ll also share these  in a later post.

–Aj. Nick will speak next time on developing argumentation in a journal article or paper.

Our next meeting is on May 2. I will not be sending any reminders, but please do join us if you are free.