Research:

• Identity in Academic Writing
• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Metaphor
• Literature in teaching Academic Writing

Conferences & Workshops:

1. Participant, Pan-African Doctoral School on Managing the  doctoral process held at the University of Ghana (15th- 19th January 2018).
2. Partnership for Africa’s next generation of academics (PANGeA) workshop on Critical Discourse Analysis at the University of Ghana (21-23 November 2017).
3. Ayaawan, E. A. (2015). The chronotope of the encounter in Achebe’s Things fall apart.Presented at the Department of English Graduate Seminar.
4. Ayaawan, E. A. (2015). The communal chronotope in Armah’s The healers. Presented at Emerging Scholars in Language, Literary Arts and Communication.
5. Ayaawan E. A. (2015). Football in computer-mediated discourse: A genre analysis of the match preview. Presented at Emerging Scholars in Language, Literary Arts and Communication.
6. Chairman of presentation – Acquah, I. (2016). The rhetoric of political campaign in Ghana: a study of NPP and NDC campaign messages during the 2012 election. Presented at the Department of English Graduate Seminar, University of Cape Coast, Faculty of Arts Conference Room: 10thMay, 2016.
7. Chairman of presentation – Okyere-Darko, N. (2015). A reading of Chimamanda Adechie’s Purple Hibiscus. Presented at the Department of English Graduate Seminar, University of Cape Coast, Faculty of Arts Conference Room.
8. Corpus Linguistics Workshop (23rd February 2016)

Publications:

1. Ayaawan, A.E. (forthcoming). Corporate identity on the Web: The case of telecommunication companies in Ghana. Legon Journal of the Humanities (29)
2. Oppong- Adjei, D & Ayaawan, E. A. (2013). A comparative analysis of the prose styles of Achebe and Armah. Language in India 13 (9) pp. 1 - 18

Courses Taught:
UGRC 110: Academic Writing I
UGRC 210: Academic Writing II
LANG001: Writing Skills I
LANG002: Writing Skills II