I did not make the cut to continue my PHD in Education in UITM Shah Alam, Malaysia. At the end of the third semester, I did not manage well my school fees and ended with my status as KIV student. After two consecutive appeals in two semesters, the Senate of UITM denied my appeal to recontinue my PHD study.

I was on dormant mode for almost two years. However, for your info, the blessing in disguise did really come into my life recently, and I am blessed to pursue my study in PHD in Management on my own through one of the prominent private university in Malaysia. Hope, everybody be happy with the new step that I have made.

I remember an anology from one prominent Professor of Clinical Psychology in Malaysia whereby he said that everyday at very specific time early in the morning, the spider in his car garage would made his cobweb, and every morning during any working day, the professor would accidently destroyed its web when going to work in uni, and the lifecycle of the spider, effortless making its web, day by day did give significant life-lesson to the professor. He shared that incident with me, and I will borrow his concept in achieving my dreamt using that analogy. Thank you, guys.  

I will start a new research for my thesis. The topic of the thesis is Academic Writing Curriculum Design for Royal Malaysian Navy Adult Learners: A Case of Psychology of Writing

This research is on psychology of writing and how different socio-cultural environment would affect on the design of a writing curriculum design. As an adult learner, the personnel of Royal Malaysian  Navy need a specific tailored writing curriculum that is to be developed based on ethnic group differences. Based on Article 157 of Malaysian Federal Constitution, this research enables the researcher to work on the perspective of ethnic differences in language and education background in Royal Malaysian Navy context.

I will divide my thesis into several small researches.

1. To prove my case: a contrastive rhetoric study
2. To prove the application of process writing: three quantitative studies on writing behaviour, strategies and styles
3. To prove the differences between ethnic group:   three qualitative studies on writing behaviour, strategies and styles
4. To prove the application of different curriculum for different ethnic group: a curriculum design
5. To prove the application of adult learning concept: an androgynous teaching in teaching adults case study

 I will start with the planning of writing the results of the researches soon after I finished those researches.
Rahim

It had been sometime that I had updated my blog

It had been sometime that I had updated my blog. The first update is that I want to look more on to challenge the Grabe and Kaplan contrastive rhetoric theory that put Asians in a single cluster or group of contrastive rhetoric. Later, I want to explore the writing strategies that found to be difficult to different ethnic group in Malaysia. Well, wish me luck. Adios my friends.   

The Research Proposal

My RP is L1 Influences of Malaysian ESL Writings at Royal Military College and National Defence University : A Case Study of Contrastive Rhetoric. To be sincere and honest, this topic was not easy for me. To be frank, I was doing background check about contrastive rhetoric for almost two years and still at the moment, I noticed that in qualitative studies, you need to be meticulous and very thorough on aspects of research. I need someone...., that is my future supervisor to lead me the way. Hmmmmmmm. Today is Saturday and I hope that I will survive this course. This is hard, and I am wandering if I were to reach the podium.

Yours sincerely,

Rahim   

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