GUIDANCE TALK ON 'BASICS OF ACADEMIC WRITING'

 

The Department of English and Postgraduate Center organized a 𝑮𝒖𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒍𝒌 on 𝑩𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 with an aim to motivate and thereby enable students develop their 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 - 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒔𝒌𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒂𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒊𝒄 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒄𝒆𝒔𝒔.

“The skill of writing like an academic so to sound scholarly to the readers of your text puts students on pedestal and distinguishes an individual from the rest”, said 𝑴𝒓. 𝒁𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒆𝒓 𝑺𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒎 𝑺𝒂𝒚𝒚𝒆𝒅, the Resource Person of the talk. Further he said, “There are no good students or bad students. There are only good writers and bad writers”, while highlighting how academic evaluation is mostly based on writing ranging from personal notes to Ph. D. theses.

He oriented sixty-six student-participants to the types of academic writing. The focus was on reading for gist in the context of textual details, quality of writing and accuracy in content.

The stories, essays, and poems prescribed to the students in their English syllabus were explained 𝒊𝒏 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 on PowerPoint slides. The emphasis was placed on steps such as reading the text with a goal of writing gist, formulating one or two long descriptive questions, and at last writing their answers to tally one’s understanding of the content, simplifying the What, Why, and How of getting started while preparing for any examination/assessment.

Mr. Zameer Sayyed during the session (06.03.2023)

Students listening on ‘writing’ that’s appreciated in the academics (06.03.2023)