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In this course, you will learn:
- Discusses what it means to be an academic research writer in the twenty-first century, including topics such as identifying current or future research challenges, challenging established facts or ideas, and comprehending and reproducing existing research in your field.
- We also look at professional viewpoints on how to begin the academic writing process, as well as the various shapes that academic research writing might take.
- Learn how academics communicate in writing, what distinguishes academic writing from other types of writing, and the citation and reference formats employed in your specific field of research.
- This session addresses these topics and more, as well as providing some practical skills to help you bridge the gap between non-academic and academic writing types.
- Examines how authors might define their research domain, present gaps in current knowledge, and frame their goals and objectives before analyzing how to incorporate the work of others into their own arguments and stance.
- Discusses important aspects of reporting research techniques and data types. We first describe how to report participant samples, research instruments, experimental techniques, and research design before moving on to a variety of qualitative and quantitative data types such as interview and observation data, surveys, statistical tests, tables, and charts.
Syllabus:
- Becoming an academic writer
- Understanding academic language and conventions
- Planning and writing the introduction and the literature review
- Exploring the method and results sections
- Discussing and concluding your findings
