Writing and Disseminating Grey Literature
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Writing and Disseminating Grey Literature at Coursera Overview
Duration | 33 hours |
Total fee | Free |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Explore Free Course  |
Credential | Certificate |
Writing and Disseminating Grey Literature at Coursera Highlights
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- Shareable Certificate Earn a Certificate upon completion
- 100% online Start instantly and learn at your own schedule.
- Approx. 33 hours to complete
- English Subtitles: English
Writing and Disseminating Grey Literature at Coursera Course details
- If you are a researcher, academic, student, development sector professional or a practitioner who is keen to reach the research-based knowledge you have created to a wider audience, this course is for you.
- Vast amounts of knowledge are produced by educational and research institutions through rigorous research and fieldwork. Yet, there is a dearth of access to this knowledge among non-academic communities (which includes practitioners, policymakers, and citizens) due to the language used. Researchers can bring visibility to grey literature if they engage with alternate public writing forms.
- Newer platforms for knowledge dissemination across digital, print, and multimedia channels have made information from grey literature more available and accessible to lay readers. Using formats such as data stories, photo narratives, opinion pieces and infographics, these platforms can help researchers reach a much wider audience when they adopt newer writing techniques.
- This course will:
- Provide an overview of data stories, photo narratives, opinion pieces and infographics produced from grey literature
- Teach methods to craft such pieces
- Explain how to pitch to media outlets
- Teach how social media can be leveraged to draw greater visibility to publications
Writing and Disseminating Grey Literature at Coursera Curriculum
Welcome to the Course
Welcome to the course
How to get started
Assignment and exercises
Meet the course instructors
Grey literature: what and why
Grey literature: who and where
When you sit down to write
Pitching your idea to a media outlet
Welcome to this module
Overview of different types of grey literature
Frame an argument: Netflix or cable?
What must your pitch contain?
Conclusion, references and resources
Click start to recap how to pitch
Express Yourself: Crafting an Opinion Piece (Op-ed)
Op-eds: what, who, when, why, where
Five questions before you write
Structure of an op-ed
How is an op-ed different from grey literature?
Welcome to this module
Five questions before you write
A published op-ed (for reference)
Key elements of a strong op-ed
Compare and contrast: a report and an op-ed
Writing tips for op-eds
Conclusion, references and resources
Writing and pitching your op-ed
Numbers are Awesome: Using Data to Tell a Story
Data story: what, who, when, why, where
Writing a data story: extracting relevant data
Building your narrative
Converting a report into a data story
Introduction to infographics
Welcome to this module
Reflecting on your fieldwork for a data story
Compare and contrast: a report and data story
Writing tips for data stories
Designing your infographic
Conclusion, references and resources
Let's recap how to draw material for a data story
Put Your Phone Camera to Work: Telling a Photo Narrative
Creating a photo narrative: researcher interview
Photo narratives: what, when, why
Creating a photo narrative: from idea to output
Photos from the field: planned or organic?
Treatment: working through the visual concept
Putting your phone camera to work
Review and Selection
Conclusion: put your phone camera to work
Welcome to this module
Introduction to the researcher interview
Photo essay or photo story?
Conclusion, references and resources
Using Social Media to Drive Readership
Using social media to drive readership
General overview of different platforms
Twitter: Writing tips and ways to engage better
Instagramming like a pro
Welcome to this module
A podcast on how social media can help researchers
Getting to know Twitter
Example: journal article to tweet thread
Example: data story to tweets
Make your Twitter timeline relevant
Getting to know Instagram
Samples of Instagram stories
Things to remember across platforms
Conclusion, resources and references
Editing Your Own Work
Editing: what, why, when, how
Substantive editing
Copy editing and proofreading
Welcome to this module
Substantive editing exercise (part 1 of 2)
Substantive editing exercise (part 2 of 2)
Copy editing and proofreading exercise (part 1 of 2)
Copy editing and proofreading exercise (part 2 of 2)
Editing tips and tricks
Conclusion, references and resources
Editing your own work
Before you dive into your assignment...
Goodbye and good luck!
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