OEFL celebrates Bhartiya Bhasha Divas, holds writing workshop and forum

Writing Workshop: CWS held ‘Draft-a-thon: Writing the Field’, a 3-day long intensive writing workshop for doctoral research scholars in social sciences and humanities from November 22 to 24. The workshop was attended by seven doctoral scholars from across the country, from institutions such as Indian Institute of Technology Bombay; Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai; The University of Hyderabad; Savitribai Phule Pune University; Mizoram University; Hyderabad Central University; and IGNOU. The participants were invited to work on a draft chapter from their Ph.D. dissertations over the course of the workshop, attending to their argument therein and understanding the nuances of academic writing. Each session in the workshop was designed to progressively engage the scholars with one writing related theme. Each participant also received constructive feedback on their draft from one CWS faculty.

On the first day Dr. Madhura Lohokare conducted a session on the overall structure of a Ph.D. chapter, followed by Dr. Jyoti’s session on the question of voice in academic writing, and later Dr. Srishti Malaviya’s session was on theoretical frameworks. The second day was started by Prof. Shachi’s reflective session on the framing of an academic argument, followed by Dr. Mohammed Sayeed’s session on working with primary sources. The day was concluded by Dr. Shivani Kapoor’s session on working with secondary sources and archival material. The third day began with intensive one-on-one feedback sessions for each participant which was followed by a concluding collective workshop on the participants’ writings. The workshop closed with the Research Majlis Retrospective, a panel discussion on the nature of evidence.