Writing for Social Work
About me
- Provide writing support for social work writing: technical, clinical, academic, professional
- 6 years' experience as a writing instructor here at UT
- research/professional focus: rhetoric and writing
About Writing Services
- Part of a suite of services offered by the DiNitto Center for Career Services
- Overarching goal: provide support through all stages of the writing process
- Informed by field's best practices: non-evaluative, non-directive
- Spring Appointment Hours: T/W 9:00 AM-1:00 PM
Writing for Social Work
- What is APA Style?
- Types of Social Work writing assignments
- What is a writing process?
- Writing process as self-care
"There are lots of ways to make the writing process so painful that you put it off hoping that the paper fairy will magically write your paper for you. No one intentionally makes the process painful, of course, but we do so in lots of unintentional ways. The most common way is to procrastinate until guilt, anxiety, and sheer adrenaline force you to sit down and do the paper. While that sometimes works, it often doesn't. Although students often tell me that they write better under pressure, it generally turns out that's a false comparison, as they haven't figured out any other way to make themselves write at all! Try starting before the pressure is terrifying, and see what happens. The paper won't be any worse, and the process just might be less painful."
- What is a writing process?
- Writing process as self-care
- What is a writing process?
- Writing process as self-care
- What is a writing process?
- Writing process as self-care
- What is a writing process?
- Writing process as self-care
- Seeing the writing consultant is a great way to begin to formulate your own writing process (beyond binge writing)!
- "therapy for writers"--I help conquer anxiety about writing and demystify the writing process, as well as the conventions of different styles of social work writing
- I am also a graduate student!
Feedback
- Of all your writing skills, which one are you the most confident in or proud of? (Topic formulation, research, prose style, ability to synthesize sources, etc.)
- Which writing skill would you like to improve while you are enrolled here at UT's SSW?
- Is there anything you would like me to know that might help me better serve you?
Writing for Social Work
By Laura E Thain
