Getting Started

 

Welcome to Sacred Writes’ 2021 Public Scholarship Training!
Let’s get cracking, shall we?

 

If you haven’t already

Check out the bios of your fellow cohort members and find out who you’re working with for this unit!

 

Objectives

By the end of this training, you should have a better sense of:

  • why and how to go public with your work

  • why you know more than you think you know (and should broaden how you understand your expertise)

  • how to write for public, non-specialist audiences — including how to pitch to specific publications and the stylistic differences between writing an op-ed and writing an explainer

  • how and why social media is so important to the work of public scholarship

  • how to develop and stick to a core message when engaging with the media

  • and the rewards and risks of going public

 
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important dates

(11 May & 14 May)
real-time Meet & Greets

(12 may)
activity due

(14 May)
pod feedback due

 
 

TO Do

  • Join us for our real-time meet & greet this week!

    • Team Blue Jeans: Friday 14 May @ 12:30pm EDT

    • Team Overalls: Tuesday 11 May @ 11am EDT

  • Listen to the introductory podcast (either here on the website or through the Storyboard app)

  • Check out the timeline of public scholarship on religion and the amazing work our previous public scholarship fellows have been doing

  • Complete the activity by 12 May and offer feedback to your podmates by 14 May

  • Review the additional resources as your schedule and bandwidth allow

 

Podcast

Not a podcast person? Read the transcript!

“If you’re gonna be smart,
why not do it in public?”

Activity

(By 12 May) Share a few links to some of your favorite public scholarship, on religion or otherwise. Which format(s) appeal to you and why?

(By 14 May) Check out your podmates’ examples and let them know what you thought. (Feel free to check out everyone else’s examples, too.) What stood out to you about their suggestions? Could you see yourself doing this kind of public scholarship?

Feel free to let us & the rest of the cohort know what you thought about these examples: @Sacred_Writes #SmartInPublic  

 

Additional Resources

If/as you have time, check out these resources before moving on to the next unit. Let us know what you think on twitter!