Writing Short is Hard Consulting Company
Writing Short is Hard Consulting Company
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Description

Writing Short is Hard is an editing company. We help academics and artists communicate effectively with an audience of their peers.

Company website
https://shortishard.com/
Industries
Business services Education Public relations & communications

Recent projects

Sustainability Write-Up (for graduate students only)

We have a set of secondary sources that have been coded in NVivo, and need support in performing the thematic analysis for these, as well as writing up a report for industry stakeholders. The final deliverables will be (a) an excel spreadsheet organizing the NVivo codes into grandparent, parent, and child codes, and (b) a co-authored report for industry professionals.

Admin Merry Henderson
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Category Education + 3
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WIL Researcher (PhD-in-progress required)

We would like students to help us with performing qualitative sustainability research in NVivo10 and Covidence. We have a list of references in Zotero, and we are looking for a team of PhD student researchers to analyze these references using inductive and deductive, qualitative coding techniques. The final deliverable will be a completed NVivo project with a codebook and list of coding decisions.

Admin Merry Henderson
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Category Databases + 3
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Media Research (for students in PR or communications)

I'm seeking one (or more) student(s) interested in media relations, communication, or public relationships to help Writing Short is Hard to share our work and perspective in the media. After obtaining a good understanding of our products, services, and expertise, your primarily responsibility will be to regularly monitor the regular updates from Help a Reporter Out (HARO), an online service for journalists to obtain feedback. When relevant asks from reporters are posted, you'll refer those asks to your supervisor, with recommendations for how we could respond to the reporter. This work comes with options to learn more about writing for publication and content marketing.

Admin Merry Henderson
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Category Media + 3
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Research for Content Marketing (for an MLIS Candidate)

This research project for content marketing has two parts. Task 1: Generate topics for my advice column Review previous articles in my archive (I will send this to the chosen candidate) Do market research to see what kinds of questions or concerns people have about their academic writing Draft a list of questions that could be addressed in my column Once you've generated the list of potential topics & questions, we can collectively choose our top one or two, and I'll ask you to then move on to Task 2. Task 2: Create an annotated bibliography Search for peer-reviewed research in academic databases on the topic we've identified. Locate around 12 peer-reviewed journal articles on this topic. Take down the citation using APA 7th edition, including the DOI. Write short summaries of the content of each article, with both your subjective opinion and also an objective summary of the research question, method and findings.

Admin Merry Henderson
Matches 1
Category Databases + 3
Closed

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