Workshops

Academic Phrasebank in the Academic Writing

At the College of Pharmacy, the quality assurance unit held a national workshop entitled "Academic Phrasebank in the Academic Writing" on Thursday the 27^th of October 2022 at the College of Pharmacy.

     The presenter was Dr. Idrees B. Qader, a Lecturer at Hawler Medical University. He presented critical information on the Academic Phrasebank, which refers to a library containing a collection of English phrases that can be readily used in scientific papers and theses. It aims to provide the phraseological ‘nuts and bolts’ of academic writing organized according to the main sections of a research paper, review article or thesis.

 Workshop Outcome

At the end of workshop all the participants were familiar with the following points in Academic Phrasebank skills:

1. Specific information about academic writing (research paper and review article)
2. How to use academic phrase banks and avoid plagiarism
3. The benefit of using a good academic Phrasebank
4. The requirements of academic writing
5. How academic writing phrases are organized into different sections?

 Speaker Information

Idrees is a lecturer of Analytical Chemistry in the Pharmaceutical Chemistry Department at the College of Pharmacy in Hawler Medical University. He has been employed at Hawler Medical University since 2006. He gained a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from the College of Sciences in Salahaddin University in 2005. Furthermore, he received an M.Sc. degree in Analytical Chemistry from Salahaddin University in 2011 and he achieved a Ph.D. degree in Analytical Chemistry from the Chemistry department at Leicester University in the United Kingdom in 2018.