SAINTS@tlabs Research, Writing and Presentation Skills Workshop

24 Apr 2019, 09:00 → 26 Apr 2019, 17:00 Africa/Johannesburg

Auditorium

 

 

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.

1. Do you know what you are looking for?
2. Can you stack your discovered resources in an organized arrangement
3. 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

1. How to write
2. What to write
3. 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:

1. Refreshments during coffee/tea breaks will be supplied. No lunch will be provided.
2. Students need to get approval from their research supervisors to attend.

For further information contact: saints@tlabs.ac.za, +27 (21) 8431411

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