Fern Ridge (Safla Rama) Digest

Writing runs in the blood as demonstrated here with the publication of books that Cheryl Winduo and Langston Winduo have written as part of their composition exercise in Grade 5 class at Waigani Primary School, National Capital District. I reworked the stories with them over time to get them published as Children's books.  From their imagination to these books is a journey of discovery. It is refreshing to think that their books connects them to my literary world even if they do not write another book in their lifetime. Cheryl has written another book, which is ready for publication. These books are written for children between the ages of 8-10 years old. Light reading with illustrations on each page. Good books for elementary and lower primary schools. Working on Cheryl and Langston's books I was inspired to write two books also for children. Great materials for school children to read. Cheryl  is studying Linguistics and Langston is stud...

The first page I turn to after I receive a student’s essay is always the last page. The last page is the bibliography or the reference page. Why this page? This page tells me all I need to know about whether the essay is a well-researched and written paper. The bibliography page tells me that a student has read widely and researched the relevant sources and references for the topic before writing about it. If the bibliography has one or two books listed I know that no research was done for the essay. Such essays indicate unpreparedness and sloppy scholarship. The work is written without any links to the complex world of knowledge weaved together through elaborate research, amassing of knowledge, and synthesizing of data from the many sources consulted. If the bibliography reveals many sources consulted in the process of writing then I am excited with the paper. It would turn out to be a good read. The papers with extensive bibliography and references are written with...

Chief JK John Kasaipwalova with aspiring writers at the National Museum and Arts Gallery p Port Moresby can become a UNESCO’s City of Literature alongside some of the diverse and complex cities of the world. A “UNESCO’s City of Literature program” as described in Wikipedia “is part of a wider Creative Cities Network, which was launched in 2004 and is currently made up of 180 UNESCO Creative Cities globally…The Network was born out of UNESCO’s Global City Network’s aim is to ‘promote the social, economic, and cultural development of cities in both the developed and the developing world.” The cities in the network promote their local creative scenes and conform to UNESCO’s goal of fostering cultural activity. As of last year (2017) 28 cities have been declared that are now part of this network. I have been invited to participate in two of the UNESCO’s City of Literature in Australia and New Zealand last year (2017). I participated as a writer in the Melbourne Writers ...