Two scientific writing workshops were conducted by SASH Faculty member Caroline Kuo from Brown, for SASH Fellows and Associates as well as the broader community of scholars at UCT.  The aim of the workshops was to provide concrete, hands-on skills-building in the area of scientific writing, including techniques for unpacking the idea of a paper into a series of discrete tasks, and addressing the question of ‘where do I begin?’, and ‘how do I write a paper for publication?’