Issues on Academic Writing Consultation: Alternative Online Platforms for Graduate Students
- DOI
- 10.2991/aer.k.201124.048How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Online flatform, Academic writing, Alternative solutions
- Abstract
During the global pandemic, academics have experienced a challenging transition period that affects the learning process, leading to disruption in adjusting the existing learning modes. More specific problems faced by graduate students upon the research consultation and writing scientific reports from theses, dissertations, to papers for publication. This descriptive research aims to demonstrate the practicality of the available online platforms for the academic writing supervision for graduate students during the pandemic. Data were collected by distributing online questionnaires and in-depth interviews to the postgraduate students from all study programs of postgraduate school at one public university attending manuscript clinic workshops conducted by the researchers. Student’s submission was examined as an indicator of the success and practicality of the offered platforms. Two online platforms are believed able to effectively accommodate the scientific consultation process for the graduate students as an effort to complete the academic writing. This research is expected to provide alternative solutions in overcoming issues on scientific writing consultation among graduate students during the pandemic and basis for university principals for upcoming policy related to online academic writing consultation.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Eppy Yundra AU - Utama Alan Deta AU - Yetty Septiani Mustar AU - Muhammad Abdul Ghofur AU - Sueb PY - 2020 DA - 2020/11/24 TI - Issues on Academic Writing Consultation: Alternative Online Platforms for Graduate Students BT - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Science and Engineering (IJCSE 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 267 EP - 272 SN - 2352-5401 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aer.k.201124.048 DO - 10.2991/aer.k.201124.048 ID - Yundra2020 ER -