BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:9f39b71f-1c33-448d-9f44-7cb88cd39992.213409@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20210126T172844Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210126T172844Z LOCATION: SUMMARY:Writing and Wellbeing with Dr. Helen Sword DESCRIPTION:Are the pressures of productivity\, perfectionism and/or the p andemic taking a toll on your health and wellbeing? \n\n\nAttend a worksh op with Dr. Helen Sword\, where she will help you establish a calming\, n urturing writing routine that will replenish your physical and emotional energy rather than sucking you dry.   \n\n\nRegister through My Learning Connection. When you register\, you will receive a copy of her book\, Air & Light & Time and Space: How Successful Academics Write (Harvard UP\, 2 017). A Zoom link will be included in the registration confirmation.\n\n\ nSword is a poet\, scholar\, master teacher and international expert on a cademic\, professional and creative writing across the disciplines. Her b ooks\, articles and online tools have empowered writers around the world to write more clearly\, confidently\, prolifically\, and with greater ple asure. \n\n\nBorn and raised in Southern California\, she received her do ctorate in comparative literature from Princeton University and has lived since 2001 in New Zealand\, where she is a professor of humanities at th e University of Auckland and runs a private consulting company\, Helen Sw ord Consulting Ltd. She is the author of books including Stylish Academic Writing (Harvard UP\, 2012)\, The Writer’s Diet (Chicago UP\, 2016)\, an d Air & Light & Time and Space: How Successful Academics Write (Harvard U P\, 2017) and the creator of popular digital resources such as the Writer ’s Diet\, an online diagnostic test that is now also available as a free add-in for MS Word\; the Writing BASE\, an interactive productivity tool\ ; Helen’s Word\, a YouTube channel that encourages writers at all levels to “show up and write”\; and Zombie Nouns\, a TedEd video that has receiv ed nearly a million views on YouTube. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p>Ar e the pressures of productivity\, perfectionism and/or the pandemic takin g a toll on your health and wellbeing?&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Attend a workshop w ith Dr. Helen Sword\, where she will help you establish a calming\, nurtu ring writing routine that will replenish your physical and emotional ener gy rather than sucking you dry.&nbsp\; &nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Register through M y Learning Connection. When you register\, you will receive a copy of her book\, Air &amp\; Light &amp\; Time and Space: How Successful Academics Write (Harvard UP\, 2017). A Zoom link will be included in the registrati on confirmation.</p>\n<p>Sword is a poet\, scholar\, master teacher and i nternational expert on academic\, professional and creative writing acros s the disciplines. Her books\, articles and online tools have empowered w riters around the world to write more clearly\, confidently\, prolificall y\, and with greater pleasure.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Born and raised in Southern California\,&nbsp\;she received her doctorate in comparative literature from Princeton University and has lived since 2001 in New Zealand\, where she is a professor of humanities at the University of Auckland and runs a private consulting company\, Helen Sword Consulting Ltd. She is the aut hor of books including Stylish Academic Writing (Harvard UP\, 2012)\, The Writer’s Diet (Chicago UP\, 2016)\, and Air &amp\; Light &amp\; Time and Space: How Successful Academics Write (Harvard UP\, 2017) and the creato r of popular digital resources such as the Writer’s Diet\, an online diag nostic test that is now also available as a free add-in for MS Word\; the Writing BASE\, an interactive productivity tool\; Helen’s Word\, a YouTu be channel that encourages writers at all levels to “show up and write”\; and Zombie Nouns\, a TedEd video that has received nearly a million view s on YouTube.</p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p></body></html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210211T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210211T150000 SEQUENCE:0 URL:https://www.missouristate.edu/fctl/ CATEGORIES:Faculty END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR