For five days from June 28 to July 2, Academic Paper-Writing Workshop for Cultural and Social Psychological Journals 2021 was held as a course offered by Hokkaido Summer Institute (HSI) 2021.
The course was instructed by Professor Takahiko MASUDA from the University of Alberta in Canada, Associate Professor Sawa SENZAKI from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay in USA, and program coordinator Professor Masaki YUKI (Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences, Hokkaido University).
In the lessons, the instructors revised and made comments on drafts of papers written in English and submitted in advance by doctoral students conducting research on cultural psychology or social psychology. Based on these revisions, the workshop-style lessons focused on mistakes Japanese people are likely to make when writing in English as well as on logical structures that are easy for readers from the North American cultural sphere to understand.
In these lessons, participants discussed not only skills for writing papers and expressing themselves in English but also the content of the research covered in the drafts, including research objectives, the research planning process and the interpretation of results. This provided fruitful opportunities for students to receive both research and paper-writing guidance.
