{"id":4239,"date":"2015-12-28T17:13:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T09:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/languageacademy\/?p=4239"},"modified":"2015-12-29T17:24:41","modified_gmt":"2015-12-29T09:24:41","slug":"a-three-day-thesis-writing-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/languageacademy\/a-three-day-thesis-writing-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"A THREE-DAY THESIS WRITING WORKSHOP FOR POSTGRADUATES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Postgraduates,<\/p>\n<p>Language Academy UTM Johor Bahru is organising a <strong>Three-day Thesis Writing Workshop for Postgraduates<\/strong> who have already analysed their findings.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the workshop are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Date: 18-20 January 2016<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Venue: Digital Language Lab D, Ground Floor D05, Language Academy, UTM Johor Bahru<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Fee: RM180.00\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ummul Khair Ahmad, Lecturer of Language Academy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Limited to 50 participants. (Minimum 20 participants)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The programme&#8217;s tentative:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 1: Monday, 18 January 2016<\/strong><br \/>\n8:30-8:45 Registration<br \/>\n8:45-10:30 Introduction<br \/>\n-What are your writing strategies?<br \/>\n10:30-10:45 Coffee Break<br \/>\n10:45-1:00 Academic Writing in English<br \/>\n-Word choice and Writing Style<br \/>\n1:00-2:00 Lunch Break<br \/>\n2:00-5:00 Writing Academic Abstracts<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 2: Tuesday, 19 January 2016<\/strong><br \/>\n8:30-10:30 Managing and Reviewing Literature<br \/>\n-Organizing the literature<br \/>\n10:30-10:45 Coffee Break<br \/>\n10:45-1:00 Citing and Referencing Sources<br \/>\n-Reporting verbs<br \/>\n-Use of tenses<br \/>\n1:00-2:00 Lunch Break<br \/>\n2:00-5:00 Borrowing Texts of Others<br \/>\nSummarizing and paraphrasing<br \/>\n-Quoting and generalizing<br \/>\n-Plagiarism<\/p>\n<p><strong>Day 3: Wednesday, 20 January 2016<\/strong><br \/>\n8:30-10:30 Positioning your Results<br \/>\n-Commenting on your data<br \/>\n-Reporting on results<br \/>\n10:30-10:45 Coffee break<br \/>\n10:45-1:00 Engaging your Readers<br \/>\n-Making and qualifying claims<br \/>\n-Using hedges, boosters and attitude markers<br \/>\n1:00-2:00 Lunch Break<br \/>\n2:00-3:00 Language of Conclusion<br \/>\n3:00-5:00 Group Writing Presentation<\/p>\n<p>Registration:<br \/>\nPlease call Mr. Faisal or Mr. S.Irwan at +607-5533135.<\/p>\n<p>Payments are to be made by cash.<\/p>\n<p>Closing date for registration: <strong>14 January 2016<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Postgraduates, Language Academy UTM Johor Bahru is organising a Three-day Thesis Writing Workshop for Postgraduates who have already analysed their findings. Details of the workshop are as follows: Date: 18-20 January 2016 Venue: Digital Language Lab D, Ground Floor D05, Language Academy, UTM Johor Bahru Fee: RM180.00\u00a0 Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ummul Khair Ahmad, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":6653,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-slider","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/languageacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/languageacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/languageacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/languageacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/languageacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/languageacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/languageacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/languageacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/languageacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humanities.utm.my\/languageacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}