Center of Excellence for Teaching and Learning GUB has organized a successful workshop, titled ''Get Started with Academic Writing” at 3.00 PM, 26 April 2021 on the Online Platform, Zoom. The session was enriched by Ms. Arifa Rahman and Mr. Ashik Istiak as the workshop facilitator. At the beginning of the session, our Honorable chief guest Dr. ASM Shihavuddin, Honorable Chairperson, EEE Department, Director of CETL, Green University of Bangladesh welcomed the workshop facilitator with his warm words. He also said that today's facilitators are some of the best people to discuss the importance of academic writing and how it will help the students in the long run. He concluded his speech by wishing the program success.

The First Keynote speaker was Ms. Arifa Rahman, Assistance Professor of GBS and lead facilitator of CETL thanked the chief guest and then started the workshop by showing the outline of the topics. Afterward, she addressed that the goal of academic writing is to understand the question, focusing on words and rubrics, researching relevant information, writing an essay outline, writing an introduction, body, and conclusion, connecting paragraphs in a logical order, and editing/proofreading. She motivated students to practice in group study or take notes from the teacher's lecture and not to copy-paste from Google as it is plagiarism. She also emphasized the stages of the writing process- planning, brainstorming, and proofreading and asked the students to "plan before you write." Ms. Arifa Rahman then uses examples to showcase how students can use quotations, paraphrase, and summarize them. Then she handover the next part "Learning Techniques" to the second keynote speaker.

Seconds Keynote Speaker was Mr. Ashik Istiak, Senior Lecturer, Department of English, GUB. He describes the very basics of topic sentences, developers, modulators, and terminators. He agreed with previous keynote speaker Ms. Arifa Rahman that one needs to brainstorm a minimum of 5 minutes to write a topic sentence. Then he gave examples that one needs to use various techniques like example technique, list technique, cause and effect technique, comparison and contrast technique, process technique, classification to agree and disagree on the supporting sentence.

After that, both of the keynote speakers share some tasks on the worksheet and asked the students to do them. More than fifty students participated in the task and interact with the speakers who explain all the inquiries. Throughout the whole session, students asked various academic writing-oriented questions to the keynote speakers. At the end of the session, the Honorable keynote speakers thanked the CETL for organizing the workshop. They also thanked GUB, students, volunteers, mentors, respected faculty members, and the audience to give their valuable time to make this session meaningful. Lastly, the session concluded after the permission of the keynote speakers. Around one hundred participants were present in the workshop.