Report for the Writing Group Meeting (1:00-2:00pm, 28th December)

Dear my friends

Nice to have a pleasure time with all of you! And it is very wonderful to exchange ideals and experiences!

Now I just simply use my awkward English to try to record some interesting proposes and topics rising in this discussion. Hope all of you can benefit somewhat from it.

(1) Review and Give comments to one’s writing through email or blog
This is an excellent way to know other’s opinion to both our research and writing, then to improve our writing skills greatly. If you have anything wanted to share with us, you can just put it on our blog or circulate it through email.
By the way, Nicol has her own blog http://nicol2007.edublogs.org and welcome you to give comments on it.

(2) Put an abstract on your research topic on our blog
We would know more about your research direction which would pave a better way for our discussion.

(3) What is a good academic writing and what is its difference from other writings?
Need it be as simple, logic as possible? Or with “literary grace”?

Karri said that “different author have different flavors”, and Nicol said that “a good academic writing is trying to make a good framework to convince your audience”. What are your comments on this idea? Feel free to let us know!

(4) Many times we need to trace back the original sources of our literature (books and journal articles), even though there are a good review of them.

Please contribute on the possible missing points of this summary!!

Best Wishes
Wenyu