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PCARRD hosts technical report writing workshop |
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Fresh knowledge and new skills in writing publishable scientific
journals may be what is needed to cope up with our diminishing number
of published scientific articles – and this is what may have
been absorbed by the participants, if not, the confidence.
Gathered
at the PCARRD headquarters, participants from different consortia,
mostly instructors, professors, science research specialists, and
applied communication officers, took their draft |
The technical
writing workshop participants. |
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papers
with them to attend the five-day workshop on technical report writing,
held from 25 to 29 June 2007.
PCARRD
held the workshop to develop skills in writing journal articles
on agriculture, forestry and natural resources.
This
workshop partly addresses the 2004 report, which says that the Philippines
has one of the lowest number of published scientific articles (MTPDP).
In the 1999 Management Development survey of the origin of published
scientific articles, the country placed 29th among 30 countries.
In
an effort to fix this deficiency, researchers from more than 100
state universities and colleges are being required to publish results
of their research. However, without much knowledge and skills, writing
could be as backbreaking as their research activities.
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Resource
person, Mr. Frank Hilario talks on the 5 Cs of Technical Writing.
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The workshop, entitled Technical Report Writing for a Refereed
Journal, highlighted the importance of publication as an essential
part of the scientific process as well as the specific outlets
and requirements for journal.
Moreover,
the whole workshop focused on the 5 Cs of Technical Writing
– correctness, comprehensiveness, coherence, clarity,
and conciseness – a thought conceived by the resource
speaker himself. The resource speaker, Mr. Frank A. Hilario
used to be the chief information officer of the
Forest Research Institute and currently the editor-in-chief
of the Philippine Journal of Crop Science.
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Aside
from learning the 5 Cs of Technical Writing, participants were able
to appreciate MS Word 2003 as a tool for organizing and publishing
their reports. (Paul Jersey G. Leron, S&T Media Service) |
Copyright
© 2001
Philippine Council for Agriculture, Forestry and Natural Resources
Research and Development
Los Baños, Laguna, Philippines
Tel. Nos. (63-049) 536-0014 to 536-0015/ 536-0017 to 536-0020 &
536-0024
Fax Nos. (63-049) 536-0016/ 536-0132
E-mail: pcarrd@pcarrd.dost.gov.ph
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