Lecturers/facilitators:
Dr Olushola Adeniyi
(Div. for Post-graduate Studies, University of the Western Cape)
Target group:
All students/interns involved with research and linked to iThemba LABS and iThemba LABS staff
Workshop Outline:
DO IT BETTER!!!!
SEARCH SKILLS
This section will focus extensively on searching for relevant scholarly written articles and how to stay within the subject matter/experts.
- Do you know what you are looking for?
- Can you stack your discovered resources in an organized arrangement
- Can you successfully navigate your way around the thousands of materials?
READING A JOURNAL (SCIENTIFIC) ARTICLE
The decision to select the appropriate articles is key to the output; writing. A simplified skill to reading and consolidating scientific article will be discussed in details
1. Rhetorical moves
WRITING SKILLS
Communicating your narrative to a specialized community requires skills and knowledge. The work will focus on three (3) key components areas
- How to write
- What to write
- Who to write to
Requirements: participants must bring along a laptop that can link to the internet.
Wi-FI is available in the venue.
Organizers: Prof Richard Newman (SAINTS Office, iThemba LABS)
Ms Naomi Haasbroek (Event Management, iThemba LABS)
Sponsors: NRF iThemba LABS
Collaborating Institution: University of the Western Cape
Registration: No registration fee. Please register to attend by latest 18 April 2019
Notes:
- Refreshments during coffee/tea breaks will be supplied. No lunch will be provided.
- Students need to get approval from their research supervisors to attend.
For further information contact: saints@tlabs.ac.za, +27 (21) 8431411
