Free OP-ED Seminar for Professors

Newspaper opinion pieces – known colloquially as op-eds — are one of the most effective ways to reach a big audience and change the thinking of decision-makers.

In this hour-long session,
Chapman English professor Tom Zoellner
goes over winning strategies for distilling academic research into a cogent and compelling op-ed and demystifies the process for getting it pitched and published in major U.S. newspapers.

Tom is a mentor-editor with the The Op-Ed Project, an organization dedicated to getting more female and minority voices into the nation’s opinion pages, and over the last year he has successfully helped university professors publish opeds in
The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Richmond Times-Dispatch, The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer 
and 
The Christian Science Monitor
, among other places.

His own opeds have appeared in
The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Arizona Republic
and
The Dallas Morning News
among other places.

Even if you feel like your research specialty is not at the heart of the news, this seminar will show you how it can be surprisingly relevant — and how you can expand your portfolio of published work.

Professor Zoellner’s talk is on Thursday, Oct. 25 from 12-12:45 p.m. in Argyros 201 and is free.