A genre-based approach to the teaching of report-writing

Marshall, Stewart

doi:10.1016/0889-4906(91)90012-l

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“…The results of their study supported other studies such as Bitchener & Basturkmen, (2006) and Ankawi, (2015) in which learners encounter difficulties in organizing ideas and arguments, expressing thought smoothly with appropriate styles of academic writing. Conversely, other studies (Marshall, 1991;Cai, 2013) revealed various results. They found that students might encounter more difficulties with organizing the structure and content of a paper more than the language-related problems.…”

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International Postgraduate Students’ Perception of Challenges in Academic Writing in Malaysian Public Universities

Kotamjani¹,

Samad

Fahimirad

2018

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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The purpose of this study is to investigate international postgraduate students' perceptions of difficulty with academic writing in Malaysian public universities. A survey was used to collect students' perceptions of difficulties and challenges in general academic writing skills and language-related skills. The results revealed that students perceived greater difficulty in languagerelated problems than general academic writing skills. In terms of language-related skills, they ranked writing coherent paragraph, summarizing and paraphrasing, applying appropriate lexical phrases, utilizing proper academic language and vocabulary respectively as the most difficult areas in writing. However, with respect to general academic writing skills, they perceived the most difficulties in reviewing and criticizing the literature, writing introduction and research gap. The results of this study implied that international postgraduate students who graduated from non-English medium instruction universities should be supported in terms of English for Academic Purposes (EAP), critical thinking skills and language-related skills to become selfdirected in learning to write.

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confidence: 83%

International Postgraduate Students’ Perception of Challenges in Academic Writing in Malaysian Public Universities

Kotamjani¹,

Samad

Fahimirad

2018

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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“…Earlier studies have used rhetorical moves to teach students how to write genre-specific texts (e.g., Marshall, 1991; Henry and Roseberry, 1998) but not how to read these texts.…”

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A Teaching Strategy with a Focus on Argumentation to Improve Undergraduate Students’ Ability to Read Research Articles

Lacum¹,

Ossevoort

Goedhart³

2014

LSE

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“…These postgraduate students perceived that they have difficulty with general academic writing skills could be due to these skills deal with higher level thinking; and these postgraduate students have not been formally exposed or only been given a cursory exposure to these skills, resulting in them not really able to grasp these skills effectively (Marshall, 1991;Kubota, 1998;Cai, 2013). However, their perception that general academic writing skills are easier to handle compared to language related skills could have stemmed from the fact that inadvertently, they have been 'practicing' these skills all the while in the course of doing their academic assignments.…”

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Perceptions of Challenges in Writing Academically: Iranian Postgraduate Students’ Perspectives

Kotamjani

Hussin

2017

Int. J. Appl. Linguist. Engl. Lit.

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Academic writing skills are essential tools that postgraduate students reading for their doctoral degree have to master to be able to produce dissertations, research reports and academic assignments of quality in the course of their studies; and publish research-based articles in established journals. This paper discusses the perceptions of a group of Iranian postgraduate students pursuing their doctoral degrees at UPM (Universiti Putra Malaysia) on the challenges they face in writing academically. They provided the data for this paper via their responses to a survey. The findings indicate that these postgraduate students perceived some academic writing skills to be more challenging than the others. The paper concludes with a discussion on the implications of the findings; and recommendations on how the situation can be improved.

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A genre-based approach to the teaching of report-writing

Cited by 35 publications

References 9 publications

International Postgraduate Students’ Perception of Challenges in Academic Writing in Malaysian Public Universities

International Postgraduate Students’ Perception of Challenges in Academic Writing in Malaysian Public Universities

A Teaching Strategy with a Focus on Argumentation to Improve Undergraduate Students’ Ability to Read Research Articles

Perceptions of Challenges in Writing Academically: Iranian Postgraduate Students’ Perspectives

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