Successful STEM writing (SSW) helps you make your thinking accessible to readers. Across four practical sessions, explore how to build clear reasoning, use literature to justify your research, give meaning to evidence, and articulate your contribution. Learn to recognise what effective research writing does and draft your text with greater purpose and precision. Develop strategies for connecting ideas, evaluating claims and explaining significance, so readers can follow your argument, assess your evidence and understand why your research matters within your field.
18.11.2026 (16.00-17.00) – SSW 1: Making reasoning visible: Helping your readers access your thinking
Develop practical strategies to help readers follow your reasoning. Explore how sentences and paragraphs work together, identify gaps in logical progression, and revise your writing to connect ideas more clearly.
18.11.2026 (16.00-17.00) – SSW 2: Making justification visible: Using literature to show why your research matters
Learn to use literature to explain why your research matters. Practise moving from reporting sources to commenting on their relevance, building a convincing rationale that establishes your project’s significance clearly.
18.11.2026 (16.00-17.00) – SSW 3: Making evidence visible: Giving data meaning
Explore how to give your findings meaning. Practise distinguishing observation, interpretation and explanation, connecting results to research questions, and writing discussions that balance clear claims with appropriate limitations and uncertainty.
18.11.2026 (16.00-17.00) – SSW 4: Making contribution visible: Demonstrating originality, significance and value
Develop strategies to show what your research adds. Explore different kinds of contribution, connect your response to the research gap, and formulate calibrated claims that communicate originality, significance and value.
