1. RESEARCH WRITING PROGRAMME
Dr Thembeka Shange
22 July 2016

2. 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

3. ELEMENTS OF GOOD WRITING
Clarity
Completeness
Appropriacy
Accuracy

4. THE WRITING PROCESS
Purpose
Audience
Before
During
After

5. 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

6. ORGANISING INFORMATION
Sentence construction
Types of sentences
Paragraph writing
Language usage
Punctuation Issues

7. AFTER WRITING
Revising
Proofreading
Editing

8. What the supervisors want
Coherent
Varying ways of reporting
Relevant language
Proper information packaging

9. QUESTIONS ?
THANK YOU!