On March 20^th and 27^th, two academic research workshops are organized by Moon Chun Memorial College, University of Macau. The series of workshops aimed to assist undergraduate students in academic writing, as well as offer them a guideline to conduct a systematic review.

The resident tutor of Moon Chun Memorial College, Ms. Jia-qi Candice Zheng conducted both academic workshops. The first workshop focused on conducting a systematic review and offered a comparison between literature review and review the literature. Firstly, Candice began by introducing four types of literature review. She then explained five rules to create a literature review in academic writing. In addition, she also introduced systematic review and the PRISMA flow chart. Finally, students made an attempt to read an SSCI systematic review article and summarize the features of systematic review.

The second workshop started with an SSCI journal paper and a guideline to read. Then students were instructed to write an abstract in an academic way. Candice introduced five steps to read an academic paper in a systematic way. Finally, students worked in group and summarize main points of the paper.

Students who participated in these workshops expressed that they learned a lot and enjoyed the academic-related activities. In the future, Moon Chun Memorial College will organize more academic-related activities to enhance students’ academic literacy.

Text: Jiaqi ZHENG