For the third year running, Loop Editors are offering General Conference participants access to exclusive 'bootcamp' workshops to hone your blog-writing skills. Are you an early-career researcher who needs tips on writing short-form content in a journalistic style? Sign up for one of our sessions!
Launched in autumn 2020, The Loop publishes cutting-edge political science articles, realising greater levels of influence for academics in government and public life.
Blog pieces have an accessible, shorter format, swift turnaround time, and potential reach beyond academe. Publishing with us can help you build up valuable citations, by boosting traffic back to your academic research. All this makes blogging an important part of a contemporary scholar’s research profile.
Perhaps your experience is limited to writing book manuscripts and journal articles, which demand a particular academic style. We understand that this might make it hard for you to write in a way that limits nuance, balance, doubt and justification.
Yet at The Loop, we urge you to try it – and enjoy it! We don't want to dumb down your research, but to explain it clearly and concisely, and to encourage further reading.
Your 45-minute General Conference Bootcamp session
Book in for one of the slots below and get one-to-one advice from Academic Editor Martin Bull, plus access to our WordPress website, where you can do some real-time editing with Managing Editor Kate.
Bring along some raw copy and together, we can give it the full 'Loop treatment' – formatting, improving readability (short, active sentences), and optimising for the web. We could even do some picture research!
If you don't have any text of your own to hand, we'll provide a rough draft (anonymised) of a piece currently in production, for you to have a play with.
First come, first served!
We look forward to seeing you in Thessaloniki
Martin and Kate
