QxLab took a couple of days away from our desks for a co-located writing workshop. Basing ourselves in one of UCD\u2019s new University Club meeting rooms, we spent two days working on our research writing. \u00a0A starter session reflected on writing style and discussed where to publish. We practiced with some free writing and structured writing exercises and reviewed Brown\u2019s 8 questions as a set of prompts.<\/p>\n
These questions, originally devised by Robert Brown but popularized by Rowena Murray<\/a>, are a great way to get a writing retreat going. The rest of the sessions were spent progressing our writing towards our personal writing objectives – a bit like a natural language \u201cHackathon\u201d.<\/p>\n For the final session we chose a short piece of own own writing and shared them for a non-judgemental peer review session where the author could choose the scope for their own feedback. A lot of the feedback followed common themes as we fell into similar traps with our writing.<\/p>\n