Fern Ridge (Safla Rama) Digest

Law is a profession of words. David Mellinkoff [1] S tudying law is a great experience. Writing essays in law occupies much of the four years of study for a law degree. Understanding the rules of writing law essays can help students score excellent grades in their assessment. Essay writing is a design with its own rules of construction. Students exposed to these rules of construction perform much better than those who are turned off with the idea of writing essays. Writing essays in law is the foundation of well- organized thoughts, discussions, arguments, and ideas that persuade a reader to buy your perspective. Lecturers in law studies expect students to write excellent essays that are researched, structured, and argued in clear written expressions with no language problems. A good essay is the result of weaving words together in a unique design that appeals to the aesthetics of the reader. Essay writing is weaving with words to get the right design or patte...

Dr. Mange Matui It is important to have many books written by Papua New Guineans in all subjects that concern us.   In academia we are reminded again and again that we either publish or perish, a call of the highest order, which at times seems to fall on deft ears. Looking around the corridors of higher learning in Papua New Guinea I see very few Papua New Guineans teaching in our higher education institutions are publishing scholarship in international journals or books. Very few ever get a book published either based on their research for their higher degrees or from their own researches.   The question to ask is what happened to all the research funding allocated to individuals every year through their research committees? Does it not seem futile awarding funding to those who will never have their researches published at all? It beats me to think about the answer. Let’s be serious. Make those who receive government funding for their research...