Fresh knowledge and new skills in writing publishable scientific journals may be what is needed to cope up with our diminishing number of published scientific articles – and this is what may have been absorbed by the participants, if not, the confidence.
Fresh knowledge and new skills in writing publishable scientific journals may be what is needed to cope up with our diminishing number of published scientific articles – and this is what may have been absorbed by the participants, if not, the confidence.
Gathered at the PCARRD headquarters, participants from different consortia, mostly instructors, professors, science research specialists, and applied communication officers, took their draft papers with them to attend the five-day workshop on technical report writing, held from 25 to 29 June 2007.
PCARRD held the workshop to develop skills in writing journal articles on agriculture, forestry and natural resources.
This workshop partly addresses the 2004 report, which says that the Philippines has one of the lowest number of published scientific articles (MTPDP). In the 1999 Management Development survey of the origin of published scientific articles, the country placed 29th among 30 countries.
In an effort to fix this deficiency, researchers from more than 100 state universities and colleges are being required to publish results of their research. However, without much knowledge and skills, writing could be as backbreaking as their research activities.
