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DR GOODIER TEACHES ON HOW TO WRITE A JOURNAL ARTICLE.

DR GOODIER TEACHES ON HOW TO WRITE A JOURNAL ARTICLE.

Students from the Faculty of Arts and Design at City Campus had the pleasure of being taught on the importance of knowing how to write a journal article by Dr Caroline Goodier, on Friday, 25 August 2017.

 Dr Goodier is an applied linguist and writing specialist at UKZN and also a specialist in the field of academic writing, research and education. She has a master of philosophy in applied linguistics from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Her masters’ degree thesis focused on genre studies, academic literacy’s and discourse. She is also the NIHSS_SAHUDA mentor for DUT and she mentors doctoral scholars on the programme.

 Addressing the students, Dr Goodier said a journal article needed not be highly theoretical or entirely original. “It is very important to read previous journals that are related to your idea, so you will know which approach to use and a writer’s attitude towards methods produces an excellent journal article,” she said.

 Furthermore, Dr Goodier, highlighted on common things that journal writers should know before writing their journal and methods to follow.

 “Journal articles need not be original or focus so much on theory because you will find that if that is how it is written, the entire class could be writing on the same thing or doing a repetition of what has been written before but find that the subject is not same and the purpose is different. It is very important to read previous journals that are related to your idea, so that you know which approach to use and the methods towards producing an excellent journal article,” reiterated Dr Goodier.

 It was not just a talk but the attendees engaged in a writing exercise where they were given copies of journal articles and they had to analyse those topics.

 Explaining the purpose of the workshop, Dr Rufus Adebayo, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Faculty  of Arts and Design, said the workshop was organised after they established that a number of postgraduate students were facing difficulties in journal writing.

 Attending the session, were post-graduate students, members of the DUT post-graduate association and the research department.

 Pictured: Dr Caroline Goodier and Gregg Streak at NIHSS SAHUDA workshop

 Nomfundo Ngcobo

 

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