From the AuthorAID Tanzania Workshops

Greetings again. I’m writing this blog post in Qatar, en route back from Tanzania to America.

Normally, I don’t watch television while writing blog posts. I don’t even listen to music while doing so. I just concentrate on writing.

Right now, though, Ghana and the USA are playing in the World Cup competition. They’re 2 of my favorite teams—because I’m from the USA and my graduate student Bernard Appiah (the AuthorAID graduate assistant) is from Ghana. So I have the television on.

This week I led 2 AuthorAID workshops in Tanzania: a 4-day workshop on research writing, and a 1-day “train the trainers” workshop on teaching research writing. Many thanks to Tanzanian colleagues Paul Manda and Alice Nkhoma-Wamunza for their help.

I’ve now posted in the AuthorAID Resource Library my main PowerPoint presentations from the research-writing workshop. Feel free to use or adapt these presentations, which are updated versions of some posted earlier.

Also posted is a presentation that Dina Andersson, of IFS, gave at the research-writing workshop. IFS (the International Foundation for Science) funds work by young researchers in developing countries. I encourage you to look at the presentation and the IFS website.

(For ease of downloading, I've posted not only a PowerPoint copy but also a PDF copy of Dina's presentation.)

Next week, I hope to write about the “train the trainers” workshop and post the presentations from it. One or more other weeks, I hope to share some responses to questions asked during the workshops.

Until later– Barbara

P.S. As I was finishing this blog post, Ghana won. Congratulations on a fine game! And now to get some sleep before the flight home.