RESEARCH WRITING PROGRAMME Dr Thembeka Shange 22 July 2016
PROFILE English Teacher/ HOD for Languages Academic Development specialist Programme Manager for Life Skills Applied Linguist Local and International conferences Published article (JSSA 2015) Facilitator for Business writing skills
ELEMENTS OF GOOD WRITING Clarity Completeness Appropriacy Accuracy
THE WRITING PROCESS Purpose Audience Before During After
COHERENCE/ COHESION Coherence- Making sense/ meaning of one’s writing Cohesion- How things link together, using cohesive devices to help reader navigate through the text Signposting Formulating an argument
ORGANISING INFORMATION Sentence construction Types of sentences Paragraph writing Language usage Punctuation Issues
AFTER WRITING Revising Proofreading Editing
What the supervisors want Coherent Varying ways of reporting Relevant language Proper information packaging
QUESTIONS ? THANK YOU!