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SUMMARY:Workshop: The Public Scholar - How to Write for Mass Media
DESCRIPTION:There’s no such thing as the Ivory Tower. Colleges and 
 universities are not isolated enclaves\, and they really never were. Public 
 engagement has always been\, or should always have been anyway\, an 
 essential part of the core mission of higher education. But how do we reach 
 the public? This age of constant media babble and a vast explosion of 
 online and print publications have transformed the traditional pathways of 
 publication\, prestige\, and engagement. Academics – experts in so many 
 things – need to be part of the conversation. In fact\, the variety of 
 media voices has only made expertise and authority more important.\n\nIn 
 this workshop\, Dr. David Perry will help you reframe your expertise in 
 ways that are compelling for both readers and\, critically\, the editors 
 who decide whether or not to commission and publish your work\, while 
 remaining true to your work and your goals.\n\nAs a medieval history 
 professor at Dominican University\, a small teaching-oriented school in the 
 Chicago area\, Perry began publishing opinion essays and commentary in 
 2013. Now with over 600 published pieces in dozens of outlets (including 
 The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, CNN\, and so many more) on both 
 historical topics and personal ones like mental health and parenting\, 
 Perry will offer his templates for both essays and the pitches to editors 
 that sell the essays both as a practical tool for you to use and as 
 exercises to rethink how to apply your skills as an academic to new 
 genres\, media\, and communities.\n\nThis is an active learning workshop. 
 Bring one or more ideas for a public-facing writing project that you might 
 like to try. It doesn’t have to be directly connected to your academic 
 discipline or field. Perry will present for about half the time and try to 
 answer all your questions—including about counting this work for tenure 
 and promotion\, dealing with the good and bad of social media\, and how to 
 fit this kind of work into an academic career—and then you’ll do some 
 writing of your own and get feedback over lunch.\n\n
LOCATION:Robinson Reading Room\, Downtown Campus Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Sharon Ryan":MAILTO:sharon.ryan@mail.wvu.edu
CATEGORIES:Humanities Center
CONTACT;CN="Sharon Ryan":MAILTO:sharon.ryan@mail.wvu.edu
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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URL:https://wvu.libcal.com/calendar/events/public-humanist-workshop
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