HomeHe can provide advice on such matters as the planning of papers, their overall structure and development, appropriate style, and how to prepare tables and diagrams. All sessions will be conducted in Japanese.
The Writing Center’s academic staff Professor Takeshi Kawamoto, Assistant Professor Tingjia Wang and Writing Advisors Yuhong Zhu and Julie Tanner provide advice on writing academic papers and academic journal abstracts in English.
NOTE
- Advisors will make suggestions, but not do copy editing.
- If we suspect that a paper is plagiarized, we will use detection software (iThenticate) to check for similarities with other texts. If a serious case of plagiarism is detected, we will report it to the relevant person in charge (e.g., supervisor)
- If you do not attend an appointment without notice more than two times per term (8 weeks)/holiday period, you will be unable to book further sessions at the Writing Center for three weeks after the last missed appointment.
Takeshi Kawamoto, Professor, Writing Center
Tingjia Wang, Assistant Professor, Writing Center
Tingjia is a functional linguist and social semiotician, holding a PhD in Linguistics from The University of Sydney. Her research expertise spans over fields of Applied Linguistics, Initial Teachers Education, Social Semiotics and Effective Communication. Before joining Hiroshima University Writing Center, Dr. Wang has extensive, cross-disciplinary research and teaching experiences in Australia and been invited to provide external reviews for Routledge and the TESOL Journal in fields of Multimodal Literacy and Digital Pedagogy.
Yuhong Zhu, Writing Advisor, Writing Center
Yuhong is a linguist focusing on speech sounds and the mental representation of speech. He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from The Ohio State University. Yuhong has taught courses related to English phonetics, statistics and scientific writing. He has also served as a reviewer for multiple linguistic journals and conferences. At Hiroshima University, Yuhong has hosted various Writing Groups for both graduate students and faculty members.
Yuhong is a strong advocate for “writing as a form of communication”. He believes that publications are not the be-all-and-end-all of research, and the primary goal of academic writing is to continuously engage in relevant conversations and debates in the field. He is excited to discuss researchers’ motivations and goals with them, and help them develop the broader impacts of their studies.
Julie Tanner, Writing Advisor, Writing Center
Julie is an editor, researcher, and writer who gained her PhD in English from Queen Mary, University of London, where she also taught modules on literary topics and research-based writing. She believes that compelling prose is an essential component in the successful dissemination of research, so she encourages academic researchers of all disciplines to be reflexive and think of themselves as writers in order to hone their arguments, reach their audiences, and achieve their goals. Julie can collaborate with researchers to navigate the genres of academic writing (abstracts, articles, chapters, presentations) and address questions of argument, structure, and style.
