Write@UNG
The Write@UNG multifaceted faculty development program stretches across five campuses and enriches scholarly productivity through a focus on research and writing skills.
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Email any questions to the Write@UNG coordinator, Michael Rifenburg.Workshops
Friday Writing Sessions
These one-hour Friday Writing Sessions are designed to provide you with advice on key parts of the academic writing process and connect you with other faculty at UNG who are taking on research and writing projects. All sessions will be live on Zoom and video-recorded for archival purposes.
Date/Time | Topic | Location |
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Friday, January 29, 2021 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. |
Methods, Methodology, and More Remember when you drove to a new place and wrote down directions so as to not get lost? Our methods and methodologies are like hand-written directions, preparing us for our drive through our research and directing us to a clear destination. In other words, the method we choose and the methodology that guides our selection of method is foundational to an academic argument—no matter if you are an art historian or an organic chemist. In this Friday Writing Session, we will gather and talk through qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods research design and look to John Creswell’s Research Design to guide our time together. |
Webinar |
Friday, February 26, 2021 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. |
Building and Sustaining a Writing Group We do better in community: we especially learned this lesson during quarantine. Writing is no different. It is no coincidence that the acknowledgement section in fiction, non-fiction, and academic books alike are filled with people. In this Friday Writing Session, we will learn what works in building and sustaining a writing group and look at resources to help you launch your own writing group or join a thriving one. |
Webinar |
Friday, March 12, 2021 12 p.m. - 1 p.m. |
Color-Coding and Editing your Sentences Before sending the finished article to an editor for potential publication, we take time to look over our sentences, ironing out wrinkles in our prose, finding the missing comma—doing this sentence-level work. This Friday Writing Session will introduce participants to Wendy Belcher’s technique found in her book Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks. Belcher talks through how to color-code various words in your text through the Microsoft Word advanced find and replace function. Participants are encouraged to have a digital copy of their text available during this session so they can start color-coding during the session and leave with clear direction on how to revise their sentences according to this color-coded scheme. |
Webinar |
Shut Up & Write
Shut Up & Write meets every other week and provides participants a block of time to set aside to make progress on research and writing. We will work in two blocks of twenty-five minutes with a five-minute block of talking at the beginning and a five-minute block of rest and talking at the midpoint.
Date/Time | Location |
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Tuesday, September 29, 2020 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
Webinar |
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
Webinar |
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
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Tuesday, November 10, 2020 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. |
Webinar |
Write Now Academy
Write Now Academy
Write Now Academy offers participants a shared community in which to cultivate, draft, and submit an academic article. Through monthly in-person meetings and weekly digital updates, participants will work through Wendy Belcher's Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks to structure their academic writing and publishing.
Online meetings will be held on Zoom, led by our faculty facilitators: Abby Meyer, Paul Raptis, and Derek Thiess using the scheduled times listed below. Faculty and academic staff from all campuses are welcome to apply and select the facilitator whose schedule best aligns with the applicant’s schedule.
Participants will:
- Gain community and support for developing, drafting, and submitting an academic article
- Attend monthly in-person meetings to discuss progress and offer support to group members
- Develop a clearly articulated writing plan
- Research and identify potential publication outlets
- Structure an effective literature review
- Revise for sentence-level clarity with the Belcher diagnostic method
- Learn how to respond to editorial feedback
Application
To submit a Write Now Academy application you must include the following:
- Statement of interest that includes why you think the academy will benefit your scholarly productivity and progress on draft you will revise for the academy.
- Your curriculum vitae (CV).
- Draft of the conference presentation or article you will revise.
If you are interested in leading a campus writing group using Wendy Belcher's Writing Your Journal Article in 12 Weeks, please contact CTLL (ctll@ung.edu).
Spring 2021 Write Now Academy
Application deadline: Friday, December 11, 2020
Notice of acceptance: Monday, January 4, 2021
Abby Meyer 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Fridays |
Paul Raptis 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Tuesdays |
Derek Thiess 10:00 a.m. - to 11:00 a.m. Tuesdays |
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Friday, February 5, 2021 | Tuesday, February 2, 2021 | Tuesday, February 2, 2021 |
Friday, March 5, 2021 | Tuesday, March 2, 2021 | Tuesday, March 2, 2021 |
Friday, April 9, 2021 |
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 |
Tuesday, April 6, 2021 |
Friday, April 23, 2021 | Tuesday, April 20, 2021 | Tuesday, April 20, 2021 |
Previous Workshops
Shut Up and Write
Shut Up & Write meets once a month and provides participants a block of time to set aside to make progress on research and writing. We will work in two blocks of twenty-five minutes with a five-minute block of talking at the beginning and a five-minute block of rest and talking at the mid-point.
Start Your Summer "Write!"
Tuesday, May 14, 2019, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Gainesville Campus
Nesbitt 3110AB, Cleveland Ballroom
Presented By
Michael Rifenburg and Dr. Christine Tulley
Start Your Summer "Write!" Agenda (PDF)
We invited faculty to attend a full day writing retreat on the Gainesville Campus. Dr. Christine Tulley, Director of the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing at The University of Findlay, offered insight and guidance on faculty writing habits and moving projects forward. This retreat offered breakout sessions on other topics related to scholarly writing.
This day was supported by the UNG Foundation and the Office of Research and Engagement. The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Leadership offers these professional development opportunities to advance faculty careers and productivity. This event was organized and facilitated by Michael Rifenburg, CTLL Senior Faculty Fellow for Scholarly Writing.

Dr. Christine Tulley, Professor of English, and founded and directs the Master of Arts in Rhetoric and Writing at The University of Findlay. As the campus Academic Development Coordinator, she runs faculty writing groups and workshops on topics such as effective practices for writing teaching philosophies and persuasive reflective statements. She is the author of How Writing Faculty Write (2018) and the forthcoming Rhet Comp Moms: What 150 Time Use Diaries Can Teach Us about Parenting, Productivity, and Professionalism (2020). She contributes regularly to Inside Higher Education on faculty productivity issues. Along with lectures and workshops on faculty writing and time management for teaching and scholarship, she most recently served as the 2018 keynote speaker for the Peck Institute on Writing Research at Middle Tennessee State University, led University of Leeds faculty development sessions, and was a 2019 featured speaker at the scholarly publishing conference Researcher to Reader in London. Currently she is working with Prolifiko, a writing productivity think tank in the UK, to address faculty writing challenges across various career stages.
Course Reserves Workshop
We partner with UNG Libraries to present workshops on Copyright Compliance and Course Reserves.
Topic / Facilitator | Date / Time | Location |
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Do you use UNG Libraries Course Reserves? Facilitator: Terri Bell |
Wednesday, February 7, 2018 |
Dunlap 211A |
The February 9, 2018 and February 12, 2018 Course Reserves Workshops have been postponed, please check back for updates.
Public Scholarship Workshop
This workshop aims to provide you with a step-by-step plan for creating a public audience for your work and how to think about your scholarship in public forums. It will give you the concepts and skills needed to take advantage of opportunities to move your academic writing into the many public arenas where you can contribute to the debates your work influences.
Topic / Facilitators | Date / Time | Location |
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Facilitators: Michael Rifenburg, Matthew Boedy, and Andrew Pearl |
Friday, March 2, 2018 |
Nesbitt 5105 |
Facilitators: Michael Rifenburg, Matthew Boedy, and Andrew Pearl |
Tuesday, March 6, 2018 |
Hansford 312 |
Publishing and Scholarly Communication Series
Class | Time | Webinar Information |
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Authors’ Rights in Publishing Email ctll@ung.edu to register. |
Friday, February 16, 2018 |
GoToMeeting at this link: |
Institutional Repositories: What are they and how can I use them? Email ctll@ung.edu to register. |
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 |
GoToMeeting at this link: |
Open Access Publishing and Predatory Publishers |
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 |
GoToMeeting at this link: |
Workshop 1: Writing Productivity
Monday. September 12, 2016 | 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
CMG 246 | DAH Hansford 312 | GVL Dunlap-Mathis 137 | OCN 308
A researcher at New Mexico State University found this formula for writing productivity: 30 minutes a day for .5 days a week + 180 pages of revised writing annually. Writing productivity come down to structure and accountability. At the beginning of the academic year, let’s talk about both.
Workshop 2: Co-Authoring
Monday, October 10, 2016 | 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
CMG 246 | DAH Hansford 312 | GVL Dunlap-Mathis 137 | OCN 320
Dr. Steven Lloyd (Department of Psychological Science) and Dr. Ryan Shanks (Department of Biology) will join us to talk about co-authoring: how and why. We will leave the workshop with a stronger sense of the role co-authoring – even the non-writing co-author – can play in our discipline and our scholarship.
Workshop 3: Cultivating a Journal Article from Your Work
Monday, November 14, 2016 | 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
CMG 246 | DAH Hansford 312 | GVL Dunlap-Mathis 137 | OCN 308
We do a lot of stuff: teach classes, sit on committees, browse through recent journals in our field. And we have a lot of our own text on our computers and in file folders: a dissertation, thesis, seminar papers from grad school, lecture notes, conference talks. In this workshop, we give concrete advice for carving our journal article from the mountain of professional life. Writing a journal article doesn’t need to start from scratch. Most of what you need, you already have.
Workshop 4: Copyright for Authors
Monday, January 30, 2017 | 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
BLU 107 | CMG 262 | DAH Hansford 312 | GVL Dunlap-Mathis 137 | OCN 564
Few things are as opaque but vitally important than intellectual property – especially in the increasing digital age in which we live, teach, and write. The Framers of the Constitution granted the Congress the ability to secure “for Authors and inventors the exclusive Right to their Respective Writings and Discoveries.” Terri Bell, Sr. Library Assistant/ Copyright Compliance, will join us to consider what you need to know about the intellectual property for your writing and what “Writings and Discoveries” mean for your field.
Workshop 5: Writing and Revising
Monday, February 13, 2017 | 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
BLU 103 | CMG 246 | DAH Hansford 312 | GVL Dunlap-Mathis 137 | OCN 308
When preparing a manuscript for publication, we are faced with at least two kinds of revision: inward and outward. In other words, some of our revision is spurred by our reading closely and making our own changes. Other kinds of revision are spurred by reader feedback. Both are tough reflective activities but are central to scholarly productivity.
Workshop 6: Creating Writing Groups
Wednesday, April 26, 2017 | 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
BLU 107 | CMG 262 | DAH Hansford 312 | GVL Dunlap-Mathis 137 | OCN 564
Dr. Diana Edelman (Department of English) will join us to talk about the faculty writing group she started and leads on the Gainesville campus. WriteIn members meet weekly to write, share drafts, drink coffee, and experience the joys and frustrations of being a scholarly writer. Start thinking of writing groups that work for you.