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Arranging and using research in your writing

  • ONLINE VIA ZOOM

Fiction and non-fiction writers often build complex and controversial arguments on the foundations of their research, and readers will want to know that the positions you take in your work are based on reliable evidence. You’ve done your research, now how can you arrange and deploy that information in a way that supports your writing and gets the most out of your long, lonely expeditions into the archive?

If you want to learn how to effectively arrange and refer back to your collected research, don’t miss this practical one-hour session with award-winning author Jock Serong, who will share the carefully cultivated process he has developed throughout his writing career. Jock will explore:

  • The relationship between notes and the text you're creating
  • How you can make your research searchable
  • The differences between using interviews, documents and online sources
  • The bane of footnotes and endnotes (and how they might save you one day)
  • How to integrate your research in the main work so it doesn't look like a school project
  • How you can work with editors to bolster your evidence
  • Strategies for answering the inevitable challenges from the 1% of readers who were just itching for this argument...

Whether you’re working on a biography, a history, a work of narrative non-fiction, or a novel requiring in-depth research into a particular time or place, you will gain the guidance and tools you need to organise your trove of research and strengthen your writing.

There will be time for questions from the audience.

Who is this for?

  • Fiction and non-fiction writers who have already compiled the research for their project and are seeking advice on how to best organise and reference this information for use throughout the writing and editing process
  • Fiction and non-fiction writers with a manuscript in development who are struggling to integrate their research into their writing

About the presenter

Jock Serong
Jock Serong
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Can't make it to the live session?

No problem! Everyone booked in to this event will be emailed a link and passcode to access the recording afterwards. This recording will be available to view for 10 days after the live session. This also means that if you wish to revisit the session after attending it live to take further notes, you can do so!

After 10 days, the link will expire and the recording will no longer be available to view.