A seminar on "Academic writing and plagiarism"
A seminar on “Academic writing and plagiarism” was organized by the School of English Language and Literature. Head of Department, Dr Nailah Raiz started the session with the welcome note. The first session was about the Academic Writing.
Dr Sham Haider from Air University was the resource person. In this session, the Academic writing and technical writing was discussed. ‘The process of writing and it’s impact on our academia is comprehended. Technical writing is stated as the instructional writing whereas Academic Writing was termed as the daily passages, our essays and thesis projects’, Dr Sham expressed.
The Question/Answer session held after every presentation and was very productive for the attendees.The second session on ‘Plagiarism’ was also presented by Dr Sham Haider. He emphasized on the use of own words, ideas, concepts, and perceptions while writing.The various means, through which the chance of copy-paste occurred, were discussed. Concluding remarks were given by Associate professor Dr Katrina Hurbik.