On 7 March, the first session of Academic Writing Workshop was organized by the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL). It was titled Writing and Re-Writing as a Team: A Case Study and was given by Dr. Thomas J. Huggins. A total of 45 teaching/teaching support staff showed great interest and participated in this workshop.

Vice-President (Academic) Prof. Huaxiong Huang giving an opening speech

Dr. Huggins, an Assistant Professor from the Division of Science and Technology, has rich experience in writing and editing academic articles. He is currently serving as the Associate Editor for the Australasian Journal of Disaster and Trauma Studies and as Guest Editor for three different academic journals.

Dr. Huggins sharing his experience

During the workshop, Dr. Huggins shared his experience on how to produce a concisely synthetic work with writers from diverse disciplines. To show the process of turning raw drafts into one theoretical paper, he analyzed a case from his past experiences when writing with colleagues as a team. Dr. Huggins applied sophisticated ideas on writing as an interdisciplinary team to specific examples that he had encountered in this case. He invited the audience to share their own thoughts and examples, to make the workshop more engaging and interactive.

Audience sharing their thoughts

Prof. Huaxiong Huang presenting a souvenir to Dr. Huggins

At the end, Prof. Huaxiong Huang presented souvenir to Dr. Huggins for the appreciation. CTL is committed to inviting scholars from each division to present academic writing from within their respective fields and we look forward to having more staff join our future workshops.

Edited and Reported by CTL.