Maximizing Teachers’ Potentials in Writing Articles for Publications: A Workshop at One Primary School in Kota Jambi

Abstract

The purpose of this community service program was to motivate the teachers to publish and to share our experiences in academic writing, especially writing academic journal article(s). The participants of this workshop were 15 teachers in one of primary school (SD) in Kota Jambi. The workshop was divided into several sessions, including material presentation (concept of academic writing, steps in writing the paper academically, and component of academic writing especially journal article); question and answer; practice (analyzing the paper and formulating the problems); and feedback survey sessions. Based on the result of this program, it is recommended to have similar programs to motivate SD teachers publish their articles