Join Prof. Johannes Cronje, Dr. Franci Cronje, and fellow academics for a week of focused, guided writing in a supportive peer environment.

This immersive workshop covers the essentials of academic writing—from structuring your work and avoiding common language pitfalls to ethically leveraging AI for efficiency. 

• Master techniques like branching tree diagrams and tables for clearer arguments

• Craft compelling literature reviews

• Build robust theoretical frameworks

• Align research aims, methods, and findings seamlessly

• Write captivating introductions and resonant conclusions

• Plus, tackle the dreaded "Reviewer 2" with confidence!

How it works

We start on Tuesday and work till the next Monday

The first meeting will start at 09:00 and you will be asked to share your research in the form of a fairy tale. You will also have to share with us your progress so far and your expectations of the workshop. Then there will be a briefing on the day's activities. At 11:00 we break for uninterrupted offline writing until. At 15:00, we meet in an online plenary session to discuss our progress. You will then receive overnight homework, and we will meet the next day at 09:00. From there we will follow the same pattern of briefing writing, critiquing, feedback, and homework.

Prof. Johannes and Dr Franci will be on standby by via WhatsApp for one-on-one consultation during the whole day.

Resources

• Finding your purpose with GROW

• Research as a fairy tale

• The outline of an academic paper

• Grammar and Style

• Resources for literature reviews

• How to develop research questions with the ABC Instant Research Question Generator

• Realism, Positivism, Pragmatism, Interpretivism

• Research Methods

• Simon-Peter Kafui Aheto's snapshot of a thesis  and a Blank version of a thesis snapshot

• How to write an introduction

• Revision,  publication and dealing with reviewer feedback

• The Scratch Pad

Homework

Feedback form to use at the end of each session