WU Writing Retreat

WU Writing Retreat
 

A writer’s retreat aims to overcome the challenges of being frequently distracted from working on texts and constant lack of time that characterize often the academic working environment.

The WU-Writing Retreat takes place off-campus over the period of three days in a writer’s friendly environment and allows concentrating on the writing task without any distractions, such as email, internet or mobile and with no pressure.

While writing in the same room as peer writers, structured writing sessions allow writing powerfully and increasing productivity. Peer discussions of work-in-progress and empowering activities further help to reflect on writing issues.

The WU-Writing Retreat offers a working environment and schedule that can be experienced by any academic writer independently from her/his discipline or career stage in order to pursue current writing projects. At the end of the workshop, initially set writing goals will be achieved and a plan for future writing project will be prepared.

 

Target Group

Academics at WU at different stages of their careers with a specific writing project (e.g. publications, research proposals, disseratation, habilitation...).

Targets of the Retreat:

• developing efficient writing skills
• organizing and structuring writing projects
• overcoming difficult or critical situations, such as writer’s block
• pursuing and finalizing a concrete writing project
• experiencing different types of writing sessions and exploring their potential
• transferring insights gained from the writing retreat to one owns’ daily routine of writing
• reflecting on their writing
• networking and exchanging writing experiences with peers

Workshop Content and Method

The writing retreat consists of several organized writing sessions per day. Participants will pursue their own writing projects and are guided through writing activities using writing tasks and reflection exercises.
Besides reflecting on the writing process, participants learn how to set writing goals. They receive feedback from peers and individual coaching with the trainer.

Pre-Workshop Preparation

Bring your current writing project on a notebook! You will be disconnected from the internet and asked not to use your mobile devices during the workshop times. Therefore it is important that you have all relevant texts stored on your hard-drive. In addition, the focus is on writing and therefore you should not expect to have time reading literature or analysing data during the workshop times. 

Mrs Penz and Mrs Kratochwil would like to invite you to a no-binding InfoCoffee for more information and for an initial foretaste of a writing session on
Wednesday, June 22, 2016, 12:00 pm - 2.00 pm, Conference Room 2, Building AD, ground floor.
If you are interested in the InfoCoffee, please send a short message to Claudia Kratochwil (Claudia.Kratochwil@wu.ac.at).

Fees and Registration

Trainer

Dr. Elfriede Penz Dr. Elfriede Penz is Associate Professor at the Institute for International Marketing Management at WU Vienna. Her research focus is interdisciplinary, cross-cultural and multi-methodological and includes international marketing, consumer psychology as well as methodological issues. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of Economic Psychology, Psychology & Marketing, International Marketing Review, International Business Review and Management International Review. She received a PhD in Psychology (University of Vienna) and a European PhD on Social Representations and Communications (Universities of Helsinki, Paris and Rome). She also holds a MAS in arts & cultural management from the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna. Dr. Penz is authorized trainer for QSR International, has acted as advisor for the localization project of NVivo and has been short-term consultant for the World Bank and the Vienna Business Agency. At WU she has been training and motivating young faculty at the “Schreibwerkstatt” in the trainee-program since 2009.

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