Perspective Chapter: Writing Retreat - A Trajectory towards Academic Language Enhancement

Structured research writing retreats are noted for their characteristic to enhance academic writing among postgraduates as novices in the field of research. Nevertheless, as these researchers are expected to display creativity in paper writing, there are still challenges to transcribe and paraphrase own thoughts instead of transferring experiences by other scholars. It is for this reason that this chapter felt compelled to outline its aim at investigating whether writing retreats have any significant value as trajectories to redefine and enhance academic language for the so-called 'emerging researchers'. Additionally, as researchers are loaded with other assigned duties at their workstations, this causes a limitation, yet with an effect of declining confidence in writing abilities. Findings for this investigation confirmed that a huge challenge for this cohort of students was limited space and time to work into finality the expected throughput, as compared with seasoned researchers who are already acquainted of creating own writing spaces. It is for this reason that this chapter suggests and recommends that events such as writing retreats have power to shape postgraduate students towards modified academic writing, thereby leading to enhanced academic language.