PROBLEMATISING, ORGANISING,

INTRODUCTION, CONCLUSION

AND ABSTRACT WHILE WRITING

PAPERS

Mabindra Regmi

A Workshop

Buddhanagar, Kathmandu

July 2014

Select the area that you want to write on

Ask these Questions

• Do you really understand what is it

that you are planning to do?

• Is it a query to which you are trying

to find an answer?

• Does the query have something to

do with your personal/professional

world?

• Do you have an opinion regarding

it?

• Do you think the reader will be

interested to read your paper?

Ask these Questions

• Do you feel that you are contributing

something to the storehouse of

knowledge or are you simply

recycling the existing materials?

Concluding the Paper

• Have you said what you have to

say?

• Were your arguments/ explanations

impressive?

• What will the reader take away from

the paper?

Good Conclusion

• restate, but not repeat, the thesis.

• briefly sum up, but not repeat, the

main points.

• end with a sense that the essay is

done.

• provide an emotional closure to the

paper.

Introducing the issue

• Have you written the paper?

• What is the thesis statement?

• What is your opinion?

• How have you addressed the issue in

the paper?

• Main point 1

• Main point 2

• Main point 3

• Counterargument/ refutation

What Style to Adopt

• Vivid description

• Startling statistics

• Rhetorical question

How Long?

• Depends on how long your paper is

• Two to three paragraphs

Forming Opinion

• Make a stand

• Find solidarity through literature

Points to Ponder

• Create the context

• Express clearly on what you are

planning to achieve through this

paper

• Clarify your stand on the issue

• Provide a glimpse of how to plan to

go on with the issue

AbstractThis study explores how the logic and values of globalization are manifested in international discourses of higher education in relation to scientific knowledge production and how those values are appropriated in national and institutional policies. This study also explores how this confluence of discourses and policies construct scientists in two peripheral countries: Turkey and Mexico. The motivation for this study comes from the largely unexplored impact of geopolitical factors (national and institutional policies for faculty rewards, recruitment, and promotion as well as international evaluation systems) on scientists’ academic research and publishing activities. Holland et al.’s (Identity and agency in cultural worlds. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1998) concept of figured worlds informs the analysis. The results demonstrate that globalization-influenced higher education policies and practices that portray scientific knowledge production as commodity can create tensions both for nation-states and individual scientists.

Abstract

• What does the paper explore?

• Strategies used to research/

write

• What does the result show?