PIPK & English Department Discourse (A Brief)

Date : 12 February 2015

Place : NN 3 Time : 2-4pm
Participants : Dr.Shukeri Hamzah, Dr.Mohd Rozi Ismail, Mr KJ-Hj Iskandar Daud, Mr.TKJ-Hj
Roslan Idris, Muhaimi,
Shukri, Juwati, Yusnee, Faridah Tahir, Yusmiza Hanim, Emisharina , Noriza Othman & Lim Peng
Geok.
Issues :
1.AR is a qualitative research
-No Pre/post test
-Not relying on numbers to validate data/arguments
-Any improvement in performance can be described using DESCRIPTIVE writing.
2.AR Proposal around 5000 words (More or less 20 pages)
3.AR Write up (Sem 8)-10,000 words (More or less 40 pages) NOT MORE than 90 pages.
4. Samples of AR are known as CORRESPONDENTS...
5.Make sure APA is used correctly and NOT JUST in references but also in citations, tables
etc..
6. Interesting titles can be accepted (NOT necessarily long and COMPLETE)
7.The MOST IDEAL number of correspondents are between 1 to 5 ( But 1 is a bit RISKY-still
acceptable).
8. RESPONDENTS and SAMPLES are generally used for Quantitative Research.
9.Try to limit internet references to NOT MORE than two (Online journals and online books
should be cited as journals and books...)
10.Ways to detect plagiarism
1.Ask supervisees to always submit each chapter with attached references.
2.Ideally ONE page of Academic writing should contain between five to twenty
citations
3.Every issue in Academic writing should have citations

4. Analyse the language

Prepared by :Muhaimi Saifuddin Salleh (AR Course Leader)