**1. Introduction and background**

Writing retreats for academia have been noted of the significance they bring towards researchers in manuscript writing, as such, this has now become a prevalent yet widespread event aiming at capacitating authors embarking on academic writing [1]. As academic staff have now resorted to using writing retreats as a weapon to lifting up research output coupled with improved scholarly writing and augmented academic productivity, there is still a gap because little is considered that postgraduate students could be assisted by these events to enhance writing self-efficacy [2]. This manuscript already believes that if this cohort of students could be supported through such academic events, there would surely be a trajectory towards academic language enhancement as this has been identified as a lacking factor in

most submissions during dissertation and thesis writing [3]. For students at this level of study to be having a deficit in academic writing and language enhancement, there really seems to be a need for academic writing retreats to be remedial devices towards this handicap.

Consequently, Honours' and Masters' students undergo processes to write their dissertations as a prerequisite towards completion of the programme enrolled for. During this entire period, they solely depend on allocated supervisors for professional guidance in order for progress to be eminent, yet without any supplementary support [4]. It is worth to note that the very same supervisors have plenty modules to offer in different levels and across varying programmes. On the other side, the very cohort of Honours' and Masters' students are mostly workers employed in diverse sectors. This limitation for both these recipients to research writing, supervisors and supervisees really raises some alarm bells if there are limited alternative strategies put in place to curb the situation [5]. It is for this reason that this chapter explores writing retreats as a trajectory for improved academic language enhancement for students expected to re-design 'dissertation writing' as one of the prerequisites towards graduate attributes. The subsequent section is where literature is unpacked in relation to the benefits of structured academic writing retreats to sustain postgraduate students' academic writing logic and language enhancement.
