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Reflection on 4-Day Academic writing workshop

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Reflection on 4-Day Academic writing workshop

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Academic writing is my career and my interest. It is strengthened with great enthusiasm and encouragement. All the sessions gave me new insights and innovative ideas how I can promote my own writing and researching journey and how I can facilitate my students on doing research and writing collaboratively with their peers using multiple platforms. I would like to express my gratitude to the organizer and facilitator, Dr. Lilian Mina.
It's me Kamal Raj Dahal

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To reflect about online research for academic writing by Sangeeta Basnet.

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To reflect about online research for academic writing by Sangeeta Basnet.

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It gave  me immense pleasure to be a part of the four -days workshop. My sincere gratitude to the master of the workshop and the facilitator as well. All the sessions were filled with tremendous knowledge related with research writing. To be honest, I acquired various skills and how to hit directly with the techniques of writing research topic and methodologies. The four -days classes wouldn't be effective without the activities that we did practically through different ways.
I feel Rubrics and its ways to design can help even our young learners to write any piece of writing effectively. It was an insightful sessions, though I didn't write well  during the sessions. Glad to spent four days with bunch of knowledge.
Best Regards,
Sangeeta Basnet (Jhapa)

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During those four days of my involvement I have been aware of quoting, paraphrasing and summarizing. The most difficult task for me while writing is to be able to insert the literature in the right place. Many of us fail to triangulate our research ideas and the literature that we have collected. Henceforth, the huge mismatch can be seen in our writing. But, I can say that we had clear concept on how to introduce our statement and how to summarize/ quote or paraphrase the literature review in our text. Similarly, we are also aware of some of the technological ideas like pad let. I am confident that we can also use such applications in our writing classes.

Likewise, though the course was about writing I am also now aware of some techniques of reading the given texts. The task on yesterday’s class was very useful for us to actually learn to read the literature that we have collected for our research. The five questions that we tried to answer was teaching us to scan the text and summarize it at the same time. Searching the answer for those question required very minimum amount of time but we could summarize the whole article in a very short span of time.

Having said this, I am trying to focus that the skill that we learnt in those classes was really a lifesaving skill for us.

Knowing the difference between article abstract and conference abstract was equally important for us.  Many times we mix these two types of abstract.  Having a real time experience of writing and editing abstract made us understand more about the key issues of abstract writing.

Introduction to Rubrics and their designs will surely help us in designing rubrics for regular class purpose and for research purpose as well.

After getting the rich content from those four days we can say that the time we spent for last four days were worth it.

Regards
Ushakiran Wagle
Participant
Cohort 1

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From, the Day 2 workshop, I learned that there are different types of plagiarism including ‘self-plagiarism’. You cannot republish even your own writing as it does not add new knowledge to the intellectual world. The workshop reiterated the idea that you can cite sources that are relevant to your argument. The workshop also shed light on the ways of citation with quotes, summary and paraphrases. I had not realized before that the citation should be followed by the explanation. I generally used to include sources after my argument but I am going to change that with explanation of what the source means and how it is connected to my idea.

Regarding the idea to take to apply for myself including my writing students, it would be the way of quotation and summarization of the source. I chose it primarily because it determines the academic quality of your writing saving you from plagiarism which is one of the most essential aspects of an intellectual contribution. The citation technique in APA style is another take away for me. Overall, I enjoyed working actively both in google doc. and Padlet. I hope to such more on the Day 3.

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I have not learnt so precisely about integrating arguments with source and explanation before. Wonderful learning

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Today's session was refreshing for me. I teach my students how to write authentically, but most are not enthusiastic enough for quoting, paraphrasing, and referencing. They either copy and paste from the Internet or write completely nonsense. It's because they are habituated in rote learning and memorization. However, I have never compromised with my efforts to teach them writing properly. The stuff you discussed today were not new to me except using Padlet for writing this feedback. It's really wonderful! In future, I will also use this as a tool for teaching writing to my students. Thank you.

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I learnt many more fact about how to write academic writing,most dominantly, about plagiarism. The way you taught about quoting, paraphrasing, documenting source and integrating  the source and arguments were really amazing.

Previously, I was little familiar with MLA but today I knew about APA.  I had an  assumption that credit for citing is just showing respect to the author but today I realized that its not about giving respect rather for the credibility for our own.
Overall, it's really fruitful.
Thank you.

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Today was fun learning as it was yesterday.
Connecting arguments with source integration, explanation and its connection was so easy to work on as we followed step one by on-the way you asked us to do was something I am going to practice in my classroom. Although I didn't write well, but I will remember how we did it. Working on padlet was fun too.

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intellectual theft from others without acnknowledging hem

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intellectual theft from others without acnknowledging hem

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I have found some sources that are relevant to my topic. Quick search helps me to  explore information based on my topic. Internet search displays various sources, it is quite difficult for me to figure out the exact information i am searching.

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I have found some sources that are relevant to my topic. Quick search helps me to  explore information based on my topic. Internet search displays various sources, it is quite difficult for me to figure out the exact information i am searching.

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Yes, I used Google scholar to find the relevant sources especially the research paper published by international scholar that are related to my topic. Then I downloaded some research papers from which I got idea about the research questions, reviewing related literature with theoretical underpinnings, and main arguments I also knew about the methodology they followed to conduct the research and analyze the data. I came to know that internet search with various search engines and websites significantly help the scholar like us to sharpen the academic writing habit. I am also fascinated by the use of internet searches. Thank You . Krishna Khatri, Ilam, NELTA

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Yes, I used Google scholar to find the relevant sources especially the research paper published by international scholar that are related to my topic. Then I downloaded some research papers from which I got idea about the research questions, reviewing related literature with theoretical underpinnings, and main arguments I also knew about the methodology they followed to conduct the research and analyze the data. I came to know that internet search with various search engines and websites significantly help the scholar like us to sharpen the academic writing habit. I am also fascinated by the use of internet searches. Thank You . Krishna Khatri, Ilam, NELTA

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As I was/ am in hospital, i couldn't \cannot respond to you fully. Yet, i am enjoying ur session and workshop activities Mam. L.Mina

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As I was/ am in hospital, i couldn't \cannot respond to you fully. Yet, i am enjoying ur session and workshop activities Mam. L.Mina

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Yes, I found a couple of relevant sources on my topic ' Why do learners in ESL classroom hesitate to speak'. I consulted the google scholar.
I learned that learners suffer form various types of anxieties which teachers fail to recognize and wrongly judge students which in fact is counter productive.
Regarding internet search for academic sources, I found that many of articles are found free of cost online. Nevertheless, you need to pay some amount for subscribing more authentic and highly recognized sources.

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Yes I found some relevant sources regarding my topic in Google scholar. I can use them in literature review and use them to think more about my own research topic.
I saw many academic writings, journal articles which were genuine and had DOI numbers and other details needed for citation and reference purpose. There were links from where we could download the citations too.
I learned that there are various researchers who have uploaded their work on such open sources. It makes us easily go through various papers, articles related to our topic so we can start with our own writings.

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I found lot of relevant resources or literature for my research. The topic that I chose was not new but the context in which I was going to explore was new.

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I found lot of relevant resources or literature for my research. The topic that I chose was not new but the context in which I was going to explore was new.

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I found a document written by Patricia Duff. The document was very much useful for me for several reasons. First of all the document provided me with what and how aspects of language socialization. The document listed all the preliminary ideas required for my research area. The document was found on google scholar site. The site was very much beneficial for me as it provided me with authentic and first hand materials. THANK YOU (USHAKIRAN Wagle)

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Manoj Regmi, Morang                                                   I'm used to going through  google search for the sources and try to copy the things and it denies. But now I have got the right source scholar.google.com. Happy , loved padlet.com

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Manoj Regmi, Morang                                                   I'm used to going through  google search for the sources and try to copy the things and it denies. But now I have got the right source scholar.google.com. Happy , loved padlet.com

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about online research for academic writing

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about online research for academic writing

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Now I know that we can use scholar.google.com for searching literature review for research articles. Before attending this session, I did not know that it was so easy. I used to use simply google.com which showed a lot of confusing sources for articles. Now I feel very happy.

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I used google scholar to search the resources for my topic using keywords. I found them easily and downloaded for reading. However, some reading materials were not allowed to download. 

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I used google scholar to search the resources for my topic using keywords. I found them easily and downloaded for reading. However, some reading materials were not allowed to download. 

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