Using Research Workshop to Assist Senior Members Develop Competence in Academic Writing in a Public University
Using Research Workshop to Assist Senior Members Develop Competence in Academic Writing in a Public University
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2013
Authors
Danso,Humphery
Gyasi Nimako,Simon
Donkor,Francis
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Journal of Studies in Social Sciences
Abstract
cademics are expected to have good academic writing expertise since writing
scholarly articles and getting them published in scholarly journals is a core activity in the career
of an academic. The paper reports an intervention to assist senior members (SMs) who have
limited experience in academic writing to improve upon their academic writing expertise. The
main intervention was the use of a five-day research workshop. Fifteen SMs of the College of
Technology Education, Kumasi of the University of Education, Winneba in Ghana participated
in the workshop. Interviews and structured questionnaire were used to collect data on perceived
improvement in respondents‟ academic writing expertise after their participation in the
workshop. The results showed that, through the workshop, there was significant improvement
in participants‟ motivation for academic writing and their ability to write effectively, the main
sections of a research paper (e.g., Introduction and the problem statement, literature review and
hypotheses, data analysis, methodology, discussion and implications, and conclusion).
Implications and recommendations for management have been discussed and limitations have
been noted. The study contributes to the literature in the area of faculty development in higher
education.
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Nimako, S. G., Danso, H., & Donkor, F. (2013). Using research workshop to assist senior members develop competence in academic writing in a public university. Journal of Studies in Social Sciences, 5(2).