A Proposal on

Academic Writing Workshop Series for Researchers

Introduction

The Academic Writing Workshop Series focus on developing research and academic writing skills for
researchers. There are all together seven workshops planned in this series. The broad objective is to
expose participants to different components of research process and writing skills. In Workshop 1 -
Understanding Journal Articles And Interpreting Their Contents for example, participants will be
exposed to different journal articles on which they will be guided to understand the purpose for why
the articles are written, and develop their skills to explain, argue and critique the articles for use in
their thesis/ report writing. Other workshops will focus on specific stages of research process with
the last two concentrating on the publication for research that they undertake (e.g. journal and/ or
conference).

Pedagogy

The workshop will be interactive in nature combining multiple approaches such as lectures on basic
concepts, class discussions on issues raised, group presentations and tests. Activities may involve
role playing, brainstorming sessions, and internet search for selected problems, scenarios and case
analysis. The program will be participant-centred facilitated by professor. Participants will be
required to think possible problem areas that exist in the organization that can be used for research
before attending the workshop.

Target Audience
The Academic Writing Workshop Series recommended for any researchers who are interested to
conduct or who are already involved in either small or large scale research for industrial and /or
academic use.

Participants will write an essay about themselves as a selection process to find out their level of
English literacy.

Speaker
This workshop will be lead by>>>>>>>>>>>>> and/or her team members.

Program Duration/ Workshop Details

The whole program consisting of Workshop 1 to 7 will be covered in a period of 1 year. The details
of the workshop contents and tentative itinerary are shown in Appendix 1.

Workshop Title Suggested Date & Location

1 How to Get the Most Out of a Journal Article:
Building an Understanding On and Interpreting of
Journal Article
 2 What Is Research Exactly?
3 Reviewing of the Literature and the Writing Up of the
Literature Review

4 Understanding Research Process

5 How to Write a Thesis
6 Now Youve Done Your Research: Its Time To Publish
It

7 Youve Written Your Article, Is It Any Good?

* (subject to change)

Conclusion

It is our hope that participants attendance in the workshop series will equip them with research and
writers skills; they go back with new ideas on how to apply those ideas in the thesis with an
apprehensible presentation in writing. As much as possible, we want participants to attend every
single workshop organized to get the most of everything. Any of the workshop series can be
reorganized according to demand.
 Appendix 1

Workshop 1: How to Get the Most Out of a Journal Article: Building an Understanding On and
Interpreting of Journal Article

Participant will be exposed to selected journal articles on which they will be guided to understand
the objective of why the articles are written. In doing so, participants will also be guided as to how to
build up interpretation of the article contents. This means at the end of the session, participants will
be able to interpret, argue, and critique correctly the articles in question. Participants should also
know how to appropriately extract articles contents for use in his/her writing. The details on the
workshop content and schedule will be as follows (tentative):

Day Time Topic

2.00 pm 2.30 pm Ice Breaking Session

(Participants need to fill in pre- evaluation form)

2.30 3.00pm Hands -On: Who Am I?

( essay writing)
3.00 4.30pm Lecture 1: Journal Articles What Are They And Why Do
We Read Them
4.30 5.00 pm Break / Solat
(Tea provided)
5.00 6.30pm Lecture 2: Understanding Article Components Title,
Abstract and Keywords

6.30 7.00pm Hands -On

7.00 8.15pm Break/ Solat/ Dinner
8.15 10.00 pm Lecture 3: Understanding Article Components
Introduction

10.00 10.30pm Hands-On

10.30 pm Wrap up/ Supper

8.30 10.00 am Lecture 4: Understanding Article Components

Literature Review

10.00 10.30am Hands - On

10.30 10.45 am Break
(Tea Provided)
10.45am 12.30pm Lecture 5: Understanding Article Components
Methodology

12.30 1.00pm Hands- On

1.00 2.30pm Break/Lunch /Solat
2.15 3.30pm Lecture 6: Understanding Article Components
Findings and Discussion

3.30 4.00pm Hands-on

4.00 5.00pm Lecture 7: Understanding Article Components
Conclusion and Discussion
5.00 5.30pm Hands- on
5.30pm Session ended
( participants need to fill in post evaluation form)