Day 25
MONDAY, 4th APRIL 2016 @9m training room library, fellows prepared for ECDL ceremony by helping to sort in alphabetical order all the ECDL result of UEL students that pass the exams and also design a presentation slide for commonwealth fellows which shows their ECDL experience and what benefit they derive it.
Day 26
TUESDAY 5TH APRIL 2016 @835am Stratford Campus we attend a training on “Habit for Effective Academic Writing” -Getting the Write attitude. By Dr. Steve Hutchinson, (HutchinsonTraining & Development Ltd). 'If you are not writing then you are not contributing'. That was the opening remark of Dr Steve Hutchinson at a workshop on effective writing for postgraduate research tagged "Get the Write Attitude" on April 5, 2016 at University of East London (UEL), Stratford Campus. The workshop was organised for interested postgraduate students of UEL and Commonwealth Fellows.
The facilitator, Dr Hutchinson is an academic zoologist who moved to the field of training and development; and has been in the forefront of academic development practice in the last ten years.
Steve explained that writing was a habit that should be formed and that it required focus and planning. He further said that there are two types of academic writers namely: the grazer and the binge. The binge writers are those academics that wait until a project has concluded before they write. Their excuse is that they have "no time". Bingers are common among science and engineering disciplines. Grazers, on the other hand, were described as academics who write often and these are common in the humanities and social sciences disciplines.
Participants were taught the ABC of good academic writing as follows:
A- Audience in mind
B- Brevity
C- Completeness
D- Directive
E- Evidenced
F- Free of bias
G- Generalisation free
H- Honesty
I- Impactful
Dr Hutchinson mentioned the five golden rules for learning to write well including:
1. Read a lots. Absorb styles and methods
2. Plan. Break the writing into manageable chunks
3. Get your work read critically
4. Read your own work critically
5. Re-write and edit - but perfectionism is a trap.
Participants were given writing activities to evaluate lesson learnt at the workshop. Workshop materials in hard and soft copies were provided for the participants.
Day 27
WEDNESDAY 6TH APRIL 2016@9am I was in the training room in the library were I was working on updates my Blog with all activities.
Day 28
THURSDAY, 7TH APRIL 2016
Participated as observer in IT services team’s Workshop with Foundation at Sports Dock, UEL. Discussion was on team activities and building their team future activities for betterment of services. It was internal team building program where we were made familiar to manager’s level of discussion for productive services
Day 29
FRIDAY 8TH APRIL 2016 @9.30 Visit to British Library, Commonwealth scholarship commission office and St Pancras railway station. we all fellows along with Gurdish and Kulvinder visited British Library.
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and the second largest library in the world by number of items catalogued. A Grade I listed building, the library is a major research library, holding around 170 million items from many countries, in many languages and in many formats, both print and digital: books, manuscripts, journals, newspapers, magazines, sound and music recordings, videos, play-scripts, patents, databases, maps, stamps, prints, drawings. The Library’s collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial holdings of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 2000 BC.
As a legal deposit library, the British Library receives copies of all books produced in the United Kingdom and Ireland, including a significant proportion of overseas titles distributed in the UK. It also has a programme for content acquisitions. The British Library adds some three million items every year occupying 9.6 kilometers (6.0 mi) of new shelf space. The library is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It is located on the north side of Euston Road in St Pancras, London (between Euston railway station and St Pancras railway station) and has a document storage centre and reading room near Boston Spa, 2.5 miles (4.0 km) east of Wetherby in West Yorkshire. Part of the library was originally a department of the British Museum and from the mid-19th century occupied the famous round reading room. It became legally separate in 1973, and by 1997 had moved into its new purpose-built building at St Pancras, London.
Under the able leadership of Madam Gurdish Sandhu who lead us on a visit to the Commonwealth scholarship commission office, were we meet with Abbie Treloar program officer and Ratha Senthinathan (Immigration schedule officer)
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