Challenges for Teachers and Students in Writing an Academic Paper

Abstract

Every year the students and teachers experience the same problems in writing academic papers and dissertation thesis, even these work require to follow the same reproducible steps and stages: choosing a subject, collecting of scientific material, analyzing, interpreting, comparing of information and then writing, editing, identifying the mistakes and inadvertences, changing and correcting, finalizing the paper, preparing the oral presentation. The paper is a detailed analysis focused on designing a website aimed to improve the process of academic writing, students’ self-assessment, and teachers’ objective evaluation, and to increase the quality of the teaching act. Developing an institutional repository with all the papers and academic work (license diplomas, master dissertations, and doctoral dissertations) could represent and coagulate all efforts with the specific target of quality improvement. At the same time using the intranet and university platform for managing the development of the thesis could be a good opportunity for increasing the quality of the teaching system in the university, including the analyses of plagiarism possibility.