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Showing 1 to 20 of 212 for “"Academic writing"”.
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Issues in ESL Academic Writing
… university Direct Entry Program (DEP) state that academic writing in second language is challenging, leading to making errors. Rather than treating these errors on the surface, the underlying causes are salient; hence, this study has investigated the issue from a transdisciplinary perspective, …
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Impacts of cross-cultural contrastive rhetoric of academic writing in English and academic writing in students' L1s
… (CCCR) comparisons in graduate-level ESL Writing Service Courses at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Two 501-level classes were recruited to participate in this study: one class received CCCR instruction and participated in CCCR discussions, and the other class did not receive …
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Second language academic writing: What’s the target?
… English-language environment. The university writing center plays a key role as well, as a place where increasing numbers of SLW graduate students receive one-on-one assistance, and where many of the issues raised in the study take shape. With two additional interview subjects – the director …
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Does data-driven learning lead to better academic writing?
… been investigated has been that used mostly in academic writing. However, there has been little empirical study into the acquisition and use of two types of vocabulary common in academic writing, linking adverbials and reporting verbs. In addition, most studies into data-driven learning and …
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Academic Writing and the Pedagogical Practices of Effective Teachers
Composition, particularly when academic register is required, is a complex task. Because cognitive flexibility theory explains how humans can spontaneously restructure knowledge and adapt to situational demands, it is ideally suited to the ill-structured domain of transactional writing. Global …
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A case study of international students' goals for academic writing
… of international students' experiences with academic writing in English when they came to the United States to pursue academic studies in college. With a focus on the goals for academic writing improvement among a sample of students from diverse countries, this study explores these students' …
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Voices in discourse : re-thinking shared meaning in academic writing
As a teacher of academic literacy, the researcher is involved in initiating non-traditional students into academic language practices - the academic 'conversation'. This study approaches mediation in a way that takes student diversity into account. This is done through an exploration of the …
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Voices in discourse: Re-thinking shared meaning in academic writing
As a teacher of academic literacy, the researcher is involved in initiating non-traditional students into academic language practices--the academic 'conversation'. This study approaches mediation in a way that takes student diversity into account. This is done through an exploration of the …
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Making meaning in academic writing: mature women students in higher education
… focus is the experience of making meaning in academic writing of ten women students with whom I met on an individual basis over a period of between 1 and 3 years to talk about specific instances of their writing for undergraduate course work. Most of the study reported here is based on …
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An Examination of Teachers’ Beliefs about Critical Reading and Academic Writing
… a student's ability to read critically and write academically. However, evidence suggests that many college-bound high school graduates have not learned these skills. While the research literature overwhelmingly supports the notion that teachers are an important factor in students’ academic …
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Who do I say I am? Evangelical identity and academic writing
… students negotiate their identities in their academic writing. Specifically, this study addresses two overarching questions: 1. What happens to evangelical students when they write academically? 2. How are evangelical students' identities integrated into and implicated by their academic …
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Is academic writing the most appropriate complement to art students' practice?
… examines the relationship between art students' academic work and arts practice focusing on: the function of academic writing; the space for the author's identity; and, whether dichotomies in the production of academic text and development of creative visual work preclude academic writing from …
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Learning Analytics for Academic Writing through Automatic Identification of Meta-discourse
… Argumentation is a key requirement of successful writing, which is the most common genre that undergraduates have to write particularly in the social sciences. Therefore, when assessing student writing academic tutors look for students’ ability to present and pursue well-reasoned and strong …
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Writing in a New Environment: Saudi ESL Students Learning Academic Writing
… of Saudi Arabia face when learning English in a writing course that implements critical thinking and writing process pedagogy. The study took place over five months at the Virginia Tech Language and Culture Institute in spring 2012. While ten participants--six female and four male Saudi Arabian …
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Complexities and Dynamics of Korean Graduate Students' Textual Borrowing in Academic Writing
Academic writing in U.S. higher education often involves textual borrowing, referred to as the integration and documentation of reading sources and carried out with summaries, quotes and paraphrases. Second language (L2) English students are likely to use sources inappropriately and consequentially …
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Academic writing in English and Chinese : case studies of senior college students
… a comparative case study of English and Chinese academic writing with respect to the use of composing strategies, the patterns of written discourse organization, and questionnaire responses regarding educational background and attitudes toward writing.The subjects were eighteen traditional senior …
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A corpus-based lexical and grammatical error identification: L2 learners academic writing
Writing in English has never been an easy task to many second language (L2) learners. Many of them perform poorly in their English academic writing where numerous lexical and grammatical errors are found in their report. Therefore, this thesis investigates the difficulties faced by UTHM learners …
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Combining content-based and EAP approaches to academic writing: Towards an eclectic program
… measure the complex features of university writing; an important concern given that student success is heavily dependent on their mastery of academic writing. As a result, many international students require additional support structures. Until the present, debate about the most effective …
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Genre, academic writing and e-learning: An integrated tertiary level Taiwan-based study
… points: online learning and the teaching of academic writing to learners of English as an additional language. At its core is a study involving an intensive genre-centered writing course conducted in a tertiary educational institution in Taiwan and delivered in three modes - face-to-face, …
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The role of academic writing in the study experience of undergraduate Business students
Traditional assumptions about the nature of academic writing and its acquisition by undergraduate students are now being challenged by teaching practitioners and researchers alike. At the same time, the written production of NESB (non‐English speaking background) students suggests that simplistic …
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