The Essentials of Academic Writing for International Students

Bailey, Stephen K.

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“…For example, Richards and Schmidt (2010) defined "paraphrase" as "an expression of the meaning of a word or phrase using other words or phrases, often in an attempt to make the meaning easier to understand" (p. 420). In addition, Bailey (2006) put forward the idea that paraphrasing involves changing a text while still retaining its meaning. As these definitions show, a paraphrased text contains different lexical and syntactic items from the source, but retains the meaning.…”

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Paraphrasing in Academic Writing: a Case Study of Vietnamese Learners of English

Na¹,

Nguyen²

2017

LEiA

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Paraphrasing is an important skill in academic writing -it is a cognitive skill that requires higher order thinking and high proficiency inss both reading and writing. This research explored the paraphrasing ability of EFL learners at a tertiary institution in Vietnam and examined the challenges they face when paraphrasing. Data were collected from ten second-year English major students through (i) paraphrasing a given text and (ii) individual interviews. The findings revealed that participants frequently paraphrased using synonyms, but rarely changed syntactic structures. The interviews showed that the learners encountered several language-related difficulties when attempting to paraphrase, such as inadequate understanding of the source text and the lack of vocabulary to use when paraphrasing. This paper provides insights into EFL learners' paraphrasing abilities and suggests some implications as to what EFL teachers should focus on to help less experienced student writers improve their paraphrasing skills.

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Section: Literature Review Paraphrasing and Its Techniquesmentioning

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Paraphrasing in Academic Writing: a Case Study of Vietnamese Learners of English

Na¹,

Nguyen²

2017

LEiA

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“…To learn writing, the students need to pay full attention to the process below which explains how to write an extremely qualified essay [17]: 1) Comprehend the concept of the essay -every essay has its own qualification 2) Choose only relevant sources to the essay topic 3) Quote only relevant theory from experts -an ability of paraphrasing and summarizing is needed in advance 4) Combine and compare theories among experts 5) Arrange an appropriate paragraph organization 6) Write introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs 7) Read the essay thoroughly, edit, and rewrite the essay 8) Final writing judgement Likewise, writing elements proposed by Bailey [18] also become urgent matters to pay attention on: 1) In writing an essay, a writer sometimes need to correlate between two variables such as in cause and effect genre of essay 2) Coherence and cohesion are two sides of a coin which function is to make the flow of ideas make sense and readable as well as having sentences and paragraphs connected to each other 3) In certain kind of essay, which is comparison and contrast, a writer should compare similarities and differences between two objects 4) Definition usually exists in introductory paragraph to explain general ideas of the essay topic 5) In discussion part, a writer combine and compare from two sides of issue then finally refer to only one side 6) A writer had better to provide examples in order to give information to readers as detail as possible related to the topic 7) Summarizing skill is needed to generalize the complexity of essay content…”

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EFL Students' Difficulties and Needs in Essay Writing

Ariyanti¹,

Fitriana²

2017

Proceedings of the International Conference on Teacher Training and Education 2017 (ICTTE 2017)

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Having observed the writing class and EFL students" essays in previous semester, the researchers found that their essay were in poor quality. This situation portrays the fact that writing is a complex skill to learn in English language acquisition. This study is aimed to investigate the difficulties faced by EFL students in essay writing as well as exploring their learning needs to have better quality of English composition. Examining essays and administering open-ended questionnaires were done to 33 students of English Department at Widya Gama Mahakam University, Indonesia, to find students" difficulties in broad-spectrum. In addition, semi-structured interview to the writing lecturer was also conducted to dig his perception related to challenging matters about teaching essay writing. The findings showed that students have major difficulties in grammatical, cohesion and coherence terms. Moreover, minor aspects also had been revealed regarding to students" writing, namely paragraph organization, dictions, and vocabulary misspelling. Considering its complexity in accomplishing essay writing task, the students expected more intense guidance from the lecturer, such as continuous consultation regarding to the lecturer"s feedback in their essay draft. The interview result confirmed this issue. The lecturer admitted that limited time and big number of students in one class became his great barriers to improve the quality of the students" essay. These facts drive new challenges for the writing lecturer in two ways; 1) the lecturer should guide students properly by using step-by-step procedures so that the students feel comfortable in writing the essay, and 2) explicit explanation related to the revision given is needed. It is important to note that this issue demands a new and effective teaching essay writing strategy to achieve fruitful outcomes of teaching and learning process especially in essay writing context.

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“…The practice of the ethics of academic writing also can realize the students' academic honesty where the students learn to use someone's ideas in their writing that can build credibility of their writing (Jones, 2011). The ethics of academic writing cover quoting exact words from other texts, paraphrasing and summarizing ideas of other texts or references by using one's own words, and writing a reference list under APA style, which is commonly used in academic writing (Bailey, 2006;Oshima & Hogue, 1999;Paiz et al, 2014).…”

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A Joint Construction Practice in an Academic Writing Course in an Indonesian University Context

Aunurrahman¹,

Hamied²,

Emilia³

2017

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This research aims to explore the students' writing and critical thinking capacity in a joint construction practice in an academic writing course. The course applied a genre-based approach in teaching academic writing and critical thinking to first-year English as a Foreign Language students of a private university in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. A combination of explicit teaching, group discussion, and online review sessions was employed in the joint construction practice for three meetings. The source for the data collection was a jointly constructed text. The text was selected from thirty-six students who worked in groups. Every group consisted of low achievers, medium achievers, and high achievers in writing. The text was analyzed using functional grammar. The analysis shows that the students had gained a good control of the exposition genre with its linguistic features. Thematic progression and logical connectors at the text level and circumstances (adverbs) at the clause level had realized critical thinking skills and dispositions. Several grammatical mistakes and improper lexical choices were identified but did not interfere with the purpose of the text. The findings suggest that having more classroom meetings will make explicit teaching and group discussion work effectively before the students begin to write independently. Moreover, online review sessions can support the students' learning but with limitations.

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The Essentials of Academic Writing for International Students

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Paraphrasing in Academic Writing: a Case Study of Vietnamese Learners of English

Paraphrasing in Academic Writing: a Case Study of Vietnamese Learners of English

EFL Students' Difficulties and Needs in Essay Writing

A Joint Construction Practice in an Academic Writing Course in an Indonesian University Context

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