Team New Era Holds Research Workshop for AFASites

Omotayo Adeyemi
In a bid to help students prepare for academic writing, The executive council of the Association of Faculty of Arts students(AFAS), on 2nd December, 2024, held a research expo workshop for AFASites at the Room 37.
The workshop which was focused on project, research, and resumé writing was meant for all AFASites, especially, the sophomores and penultimates.
The Facilitator of the workshop, Mr. Emmanuel Oladipupo Adegbuyu, a M.A holder in Linguistics and African Languages, did a comprehensive analysis on project and research writing, highlighting the importance of having a good research topic and structure.
AFASites who attended the workshop gave feedback about the event. One of them, Adekanmbi Ezekiel, a 300- level student of the department of Communication and Language Arts, explained that the workshop was a great initiative, and he also lauded the facilitator for a job well done.
“The research expo was a wonderful initiative on the part of the General secretary. It’s an initiative that directly impacts penultimate and final year students and helps them to take control of their final year project. The anchor really did a good job by breaking what research is all about and how students can go about it into bits.” He stated.
Another attendee, Oluwatayo, also a 300-level student from the department of Communication and Language Arts gave his remark on the work.
“The session was very insightful and interesting. The research process is of the phase students struggle with before graduation, and having an idea on how it works is really a great advantage to me. Kudos to the organizers.” He said.
Speaking with the brain behind the workshop, Abiola Samuel, the General secretary of the Association, emphasised that the workshop is an initiative from his manifesto, and a good motive to equip AFASites with necessary research skills.
“The program is an item on my manifesto, and realizing how some students don’t have sufficient ideas on how to go about their projects, the program was birthed from my concern for them. Because what’s the point of not being able to write your project yourself despite spending 4 years in the university?” He said