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Academic writing skills:key to successful writing skills in social work and human services
Writing skills in social work and human services
Who am I?
• Jo Mensinga• Lecturer in Dept of Social Work and Human Services• Social worker for 32 years – last17 as an academic
• Professionally, I know that
communication is very important • Personally, writing has also
helped me ‘think’.
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Who are you?
• Say hello to the person next to you
• Discuss: What your experience of writing has been Why you are at this workshop and Come up with a question you would like answered by the end of this session
• Share the question.
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Writing skills in social work and human services
Opportunity to learn:
University provides opportunities to learn:• The content of ‘stuff’– e.g., communication skills, theories of helping, ethics, organizational practice, social policy• Processes of how to present the ‘stuff’- e.g., PowerPoint presentations, emails, essays, video-recordings, poster presentations, sometimes exams … most of these involve WRITING in some form!!
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KEY IDEA!!!
How do you get your message across???
•Need to be clear about what your message is
•Need to adhere to the rules of writing… formal vs. informal writing
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Writing skills in social work and human services
Healey, K. and Mulholland, J., (2007), Writing skills for social workers, Sage, London.
Call Number: 808.066361 HEA
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Contextual approach to writing (Healy
& Mulholland):
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Professional purpose
Audience
Institutional context
Writing skills in social work and human services
Diversity:Are many different agency contexts in the human services work:• Non-government counselling• Hospital• Centrelink – what’s it called now?• Housing support• Mental Health• Child protection – Non-government and government• Employment and training
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Diversity:Are many different domains of practice in the human services work:• Work with indiv’s/families/partners• Group work• Community work• Social Policy• Research and evaluation• Management, leadership and admin• Education and training
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Diversity:Many different forms of writing in the human services sector:• Emails, letters, newsletters• Records, reports• Funding applications, policy proposals• Media reports• Journal articles and conference presentations
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Diversity:
Many different forms of domains of practice and writing in the subjects you will do at uni:• Emails, letters, newsletters• Records, reports, reflective journals• Funding applications, policy proposals• Journal articles … essays• and Conference presentations … posters, presentations
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For all of these areas, remember:
WhatWhen WhyHowWho
With your partner, discuss how this applies in the uni context.G:\writing skills FORM.doc
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(Healy & Mulholland)
Professional purpose
Audience
Institutionalcontext
Whatever!
Resources on line…
• http://www.jcu.edu.au/tldinfo/writingskills/documents/RaoChanockVisualGuidetoEssayWriting.pdf
• http://www-public.jcu.edu.au/libcomp/index.htm
Writing skills in social work and human services
What is the message you want to get across?
Need to read what is being asked/required of you by the lecturer/organization
Do the necessary research (remember to take notes and do an ongoing bibliography)
http://libguides.jcu.edu.au/content.php?pid=97207&sid=728416 re googling
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Wikipedia• Wikipedia celebrates its 10th(?) year and looks to
the future• Wikipedia is the most widely used reference work in
the world. • Originally Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger tried to
create Nupedia but, after nearly a year of work, almost no articles had actually been published. So, they decided to try a wiki inviting collaborators, saying: "Humour me. Go there and add a little article. It will take all of five or ten minutes."
Writing skills in social work and human services
What is the message you want to get across?
• Do a fast write, to get your ideas down on paper
• Revisit what is required of you
• Write a draft in the form required, including the right referencing style
• Read it out loud
• Revisit what is required of you
• Write the final draft
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Revisit the question you asked at the beginning
• Discuss what you have learnt at this workshop, review your question and decide whether it has been answered. Do you need to ask it in the larger group?
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REMINDER!!!
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