Abstract:

Many of postgraduate students encounter some difficulties with writing scientific research and follow rigid methodologies. Some of these difficulties refer to the mind habits that are used by the students through their academic studies. There are many of cognitive and psychological habits which control and orient the effectiveness of conducting research. These habits should be transformed to suit the nature of the research writing.

Persistence, curiosity, rigorous, metacognition, scientific writing, self-regulation, continua, fluidity of ideas, knowledge and data manipulation, and creativity are examples of mind habits that used by the learners through their study. Definitely, conducting a research demands these habits but in different forms because of the different scientific works that process in the research.

This presentation will try to identify how postgraduate students can improve the mentioned mind habits and transform them to give effective research writing. The Process of improvement and transformation based on the literature of research writing skills, in addition of author experience as a master courses lecture, theses supervisor, and postgraduate program manager in Sohar University.

Keywords:

Mind habits, writing, research.