About the Workshop

The Academic Writing Workshop is a hands-on, research-focused program designed to help scholars, academicians, and postgraduate students master the craft of producing clear, coherent, and high-impact research papers. It would be a complete pathway to crafting manuscripts, research proposals and synopsis.

Writing in academia is not a one-size-fits-all endeavor—each research design demands a distinct approach to framing questions, applying theories, presenting methods, and interpreting findings. This workshop demystifies these nuances and equips participants to write confidently across qualitative, empirical, conceptual, and review-based designs, ensuring precision, scholarly rigor, and alignment with journal expectations.

Participants will gain structured insights into crafting every section of a paper—from articulating strong research questions and developing theoretical underpinnings to writing robust methodology and results sections suited to both qualitative and quantitative studies. Special emphasis will be placed on how writing differs for exploratory, explanatory, and confirmatory research, and how the choice and role of theory evolves from guiding exploration to testing established relationships.

By the end of the program, attendees will be equipped to transform their research ideas into publishable manuscripts with structural coherence, theoretical depth, and analytical precision.

Resource Person: Dr Shalini Sahni

Dr Shalini has extensive experience in using and teaching various LR methods and  data analysis software. She has  conducted more than 70+ FDP’s and trained more than 5000 scholars. With a wealth of experience in leveraging literature review methodologies and different research designs, she has published papers in the reputed journals like International Journal of Consumer Services (ABDC-A), Tourism Recreation Research (ABDC-A), Journal of Consumer Affairs (ABDC-A), Acta Psychologica (ABDC-A) , Journal of Economic Surveys (ABDC-A), Benchmarking (ABDC-B), Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication (ABDC-B), Global Business Review (ABDC-C), Vision and many more. She is well versed with various research tools, such as MAXQDA, NVIVO, AMOS, SPSS, Smart PLS, Bib excel, Gephi, Vos viewer etc.

Learning Objectives

1. Understanding the Landscape of Academic Writing

• Examine how writing structures differ across empirical, conceptual, exploratory, explanatory, and review studies.
• Learn how the research purpose and question shape the paper’s flow, tone, and argumentation style.
  
  

2. Framing Research Questions and Theoretical Alignment

• Understand how research questions vary by design — from “what” and “how” questions in qualitative exploration to “why” and “to what extent” questions in quantitative testing.
• Learn the art of theory selection — identifying whether a theory should be used to explore phenomena, build new conceptual models, or test hypothesized relationships.
  
  

3. Writing Each Section of a Research Paper

• Step-by-step guidance for crafting each section — Introduction, Literature Review, Theoretical Framework, Methodology, Findings, Discussion, and Conclusion.
• Distinguish between narrative writing for qualitative studies, structured logic for quantitative papers, and integrative synthesis for reviews.
  
  

4. Writing and Presenting Results with Clarity

• Explore how to report qualitative themes, quantitative results, and meta-synthesis outcomes effectively.
• Learn to balance statistical accuracy with interpretive insight, ensuring that results are both rigorous and readable.
  
  

5. Academic Writing Essentials with Responsible AI Support

• Utilize AI tools for structuring arguments, synthesizing literature, and refining clarity while maintaining academic authenticity and citation integrity.
  
  

6. Mastering Reference and AI Integration

• Employ advanced reference management tools for citation accuracy and literature organization.
• Integrate responsible AI tools for idea refinement, text polishing, and data presentation.

Facilitator

Dr. Shalini Sahni
Founder – Koach Scholar
Academic Researcher & Mentor