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FREE Webinar – Voice & Visibility: Crafting Authoritative Academic Identity
Voice & Visibility: Crafting Authoritative Academic Identity Through Stance and Engagement
🗓️ May 14, 2025
⏱️ 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. Eastern (New York Time)
Taught by: Kimberly Becker, PhD
Academic writing demands more than just objective analysis — it also requires a strategic authorial presence that engages readers and positions your research within the broader scholarly conversation. In this interactive webinar, we’ll explore how to strike that crucial balance!
What You’ll Learn:
You’ll learn how to deploy key stance features — such as hedges, boosters, attitude markers, and self-mentions — to position your claims with clarity and authority. We’ll also dive into essential engagement strategies, including the use of pronouns, directives, questions, and shared knowledge markers, helping you craft writing that is both persuasive and appropriately aligned with academic conventions.
Whether you’re a student, researcher, or academic writer, this session will equip you with actionable insights to improve your literature review process and create a polished, professional final product. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to enhance your academic writing skills!
Learning Objectives:
- Identify and analyze the features of stance and engagement in academic texts.
- Apply a range of stance markers (hedges, boosters, attitude markers) to effectively position your claims within the context of existing research.
- Develop a personal toolkit of engagement strategies to balance your authorial voice with reader interaction, enhancing the depth, clarity, and persuasiveness of your academic writing.
Who Should Attend?
- Doctoral students at any stage of their program
- Faculty members who supervise doctoral research
- Research consultants and academic writing coaches
Format
- 50 minutes of presentation and demonstrations
- 10 minutes for Q&A
Strengthen your scholarly voice while mastering the nuances of academic communication — we look forward to seeing you there!