Faculty Writing Workshop - Helen Betya Rubinstein

Join this hands-on writing workshop with writing coach Helen Betya Rubinstein. "Finding Your North Star: A Drafting and Revision Workshop" will support faculty at any stage of developing articles, chapters, and books. In a series of generative sessions that draw on each attendee's values and goals, participants will:

• Identify a “North Star” for their current project, and learn to use it as a guide for research, drafting, and revision
• Use dynamic, expansive methods to generate new writing based on primary and secondary sources
• Practice strategies for “re-vision” in its boldest, most generous sense: revision as seeing all over again, from the scale of the sentence to the macro-structure
• Reconnect to the pleasure and sense of purpose in their work

Participants should plan to attend the workshop with work-in-progress at any stage of development, but won’t be required to share what they’ve brought. They’ll also have a chance to share questions and requests beforehand.

Please email Willson Center associate director Winnie Smith at wsmith78@uga.edu with any questions, and to register to attend. Registration will be limited to 15 participants, and coffee and lunch will be provided.

Tentative Schedule

• 9-10:45 a.m.: Affirming Your Values & Finding Your North Star
• 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.: Using Source Materials Dynamically
• 12-1 p.m: Lunch
• 1-2:30 p.m: Radical Revision Strategies, or: What Your Draft Is Trying to Tell You
• 2:45-4 p.m.: Independent Revision, Opportunity for 1:1 Consultations, Closing Q&A