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A five-day International Faculty Development Program

SOA HOLDS FIRST INTERNATIONAL FDP ON PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH
WRITING
Bhubaneswar: A five-day International Faculty Development Program
(FDP) on Recent Trends in Professional and Research Writing, the first of its kind
organised by Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) here, concluded on Monday.
Resource persons at the FDP held virtually with the focus on research
methodologies highlighted the new avenues which present-day research unfolded and
the scientific process of discovering and communicating meaningful patterns of research
data.
The FDP, which was organized by the Department of Humanities and Social
Sciences, Institute of technical education and research, faculty of engineering and
the technology of SOA in collaboration with Interdisciplinary Journal for Humanities and
Social Sciences (Scopus Indexed) and the University of Arizona, was attended by around 500 participants.
The participants were told that analytics led to the uncovering of hidden patterns
in the world that could transform one’s view of the world for the better. The resource
persons also explained how writing was an art and how it could be done in a
comprehensive manner.

A five-day International Faculty Development Program

 

Prof. J.P.Singh Joreel, Director, Inflibnet Centre, Gandhinagar, who was the chief
guest on an inaugural day spoke on emerging trends in research in linguistics and
related areas.
The other resource persons included Prof. Albrecht Classen from the University of
Arizona, Prof. L.K.Jena from Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, Ms. Pratigyan Das, Senior
Assistant Editor, The Times of India, New Delhi and Prof. Anand Mahanand, Head of
Department, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU), Hyderabad. Prof. Tirtha
Prasad Mukhopadhyay, Professor at the University of Mexico, who addressed the
the valedictory session spoke on the subject ‘Pedagogy in Research’.
Dr. Swayam Prabha Satpathy, Associate Professor in the Department of
Humanities were the Convenor of the FDP while Dr. Kabita Das, Head of the Department of
Humanities were the Co-convenor. The coordinators were Dr. Shibani Patnaik, Dr.

Malvika Mohapatra, Dr. Subismita Lenka, Dr. Moushumi Dash, Ms. Prachisri Mishra and
Ms. Monalisa Mishra.

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