Events - NPS Online
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NOV
10
Workshop
Structure and Organization
Academic, or research-based, papers rely on clear connections between ideas, arguments, and sections, calling for structured writing. This workshop introduces techniques for building a powerful paper structure: well-crafted intros, strong topic sentences, logical paragraph flow, and sound argument formats. Becoming a more organized writer pays off in increased audience comprehension and less time wading through messy drafts.
NOV
12
Workshop
Using Sources: Citing, Paraphrasing, Quoting
You’ve heard what you shouldn’t be doing: don’t violate the Honor Code, don’t plagiarize, don’t forget the rules of academic integrity. This workshop focuses on what to do to avoid these serious problems. We give you the skills to confidently incorporate others’ words, ideas, analyses, models, and images into your writing. You will gain experience summarizing, paraphrasing, and incorporating quotations from source material.
NOV
13
Workshop
The Spoken Drafting Method: Speech-to-Text Tools
Are you stuck staring at a blank page? Struggling to synthesize evidence, outline an analysis, or explain a complex process with precise prose? Speech-to-text tools can help! In this session, we’ll put down our pencils and explore free tools that you already have at your disposal, get hands-on practice using them to address writing obstacles, and learn strategies for making the writing process flow at the speed of your own speech.
NOV
16
Short Course
Decision Advantage: From Data to Insights
This three-day course explores the art and science of transforming analytical and data-driven results into compelling insights. Participants will learn how to visually represent data and construct narratives; a staff officer must present their work in a clear, logical, and understandable manner for it to be actionable by senior decision-makers.
NOV
17
Workshop
Argument and Counterargument
You employ persuasion every day, but are you comfortable crafting formal academic arguments? This workshop covers the strategies and conventions of written argumentation that are essential to your NPS studies and career. Hands-on exercises help you organize your lines of attack, remedy any gaps in your defense, anticipate your adversary's counterargument, and deliver the decisive blow through a convincing refutation.
NOV
18
Workshop
Clarity and Concision
This workshop teaches you how to strip away the fluff and get to the BLUF. Clarity and concision techniques can transform an overly complicated draft into a cleanly written product. Learn to pare down your writing to the essential words and ideas—a core goal at the graduate and professional levels of writing.
NOV
20
Workshop
Proofreading with Generative AI
Learn how to prompt genAI tools to proofread your writing while ensuring you adhere to academic standards and ethical expectations at NPS. We’ll discuss how proofreading differs from editing and revising and review practical uses of AI at the proofreading stage.