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Skyrme, Gillian – Higher Education Research and Development, 2018
Many Western universities provide for focused attention on the development of second language writers' academic writing in first-year courses, but there are generally fewer defined channels for such learning after their departure from these courses. This article uses the lens of writing as situated social practices to investigate opportunities for…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Writing Instruction, Writing Skills, Assignments
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Holmes, Barbara; Waterbury, Theresa; Baltrinic, Eric; Davis, Arielle – Contemporary Issues in Education Research, 2018
This paper offers some insights into the anxieties graduate students bring into the classroom about academic or technical writing. In this qualitative study, a focus group of graduate students was utilized to describe the specific negative feelings, attitudes and experiences held about writing. Findings suggest that students were able to identify…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Writing Attitudes, Anxiety, Academic Discourse
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Figueroa, Javiera; Meneses, Alejandra; Chandia, Eugenio – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2018
Writing is a task that entails high cognitive and linguistic efforts, especially when producing academic texts. Academic language might be one of the factors influencing the quality of written texts, given that prior research has shown its impact on reading comprehension. The purpose of this study is to examine the contribution of Spanish Core…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing (Composition), Spanish, Language Skills
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Orlando, Joanne; Hanham, Jose; Ullman, Jacqueline – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2018
Current pedagogical practices have seen the rapid spread of technological tools that carry out tasks on behalf of the learner; we use the term "technological proxy" to refer to these tools. A popular technological proxy used by students worldwide is a text-matching software called Turnitin. Turnitin alerts users to sections of an…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Self Efficacy, Goal Orientation, Feedback (Response)
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Eldaba, Abir Aly; Isbell, Janet Kesterson – Journal of International Students, 2018
In a critical study, researchers explored academic writing experiences of three international female graduate students at a southern U.S. university in order to understand their perspectives of themselves as writers across cultures, their experiences with academic writing, and their coping strategies for academic writing assignments. Findings…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Academic Discourse, Coping, Writing (Composition)
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Rogerson, Ann M. – International Journal for Educational Integrity, 2017
Detecting contract cheating in written submissions can be difficult beyond direct plagiarism detectable via technology. Successfully identifying potential cases of contract cheating in written work such as essays and reports is largely dependent on the experience of assessors and knowledge of student. It is further dependent on their familiarity…
Descriptors: Cheating, Essays, Graduate Students, Integrity
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Esambe, Emmanuel; Mosito, Cina; Pather, Subethra – Reading & Writing: Journal of the Reading Association of South Africa, 2016
The varying literacy standards that undergraduate students represent are a reflection of their interim grasp of academic literacy (Paxton 2007). The aim of this study is to analyse a small group of undergraduate first-year students' depiction of their interim grasp of academic writing and to reflect on how lecturers use formative feedback to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Essays, Academic Discourse, Writing Assignments
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Husin, M. Said; Nurbayani, Etty – Dinamika Ilmu, 2017
This study is meant to examine the thesis quality of students of English Department at IAIN Samarinda. Through the descriptive-quantitative research, the thesis quality of students of English Department at IAIN Samarinda is reviewed from the aspects of language, structure, concepts understanding, theoretical framework, methodology, content,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Writing Assignments
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Demirel, Elif Tokdemir – English Language Teaching, 2017
The present study aims to explore Turkish EFL students' major writing difficulties by analyzing the frequent writing errors in academic essays. Accordingly, the study examined errors in a corpus of 150 academic essays written by Turkish EFL students studying at the Department of English Language and Literature at a public university in Turkey. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Error Correction, Error Analysis (Language), English (Second Language)
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McAlear, Rob; Pedretti, Mark – Composition Studies, 2016
Process-based composition pedagogy has ignored the question of "doneness": the criteria used to decide when a piece of writing is complete. This article uses survey results from first- and second-year composition courses to challenge common beliefs about how students determine when writing assignments are sufficiently completed. We find…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Writing (Composition), Freshman Composition, Writing Instruction
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MacLennan, Helen – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2018
Student plagiarism in higher education is widespread and presents a growing concern for faculty and administrators who are intent on upholding academic integrity. However, a myopic view of plagiarism as a purely ethical issue is misguided. It is not always simply a deliberate attempt to deceive. Through the involvement of students in an…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Plagiarism, Action Research, Case Studies
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Court, Krista; Johnson, Helen – International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 2016
Strong arguments have been forwarded for embedding academic writing development into the UK higher education curriculum and for subject tutors to facilitate this development (Hyland, 2000; Lea & Street, 2006; Monroe, 2003; Wingate, 2006). This small-scale case study explores subject tutors' practices and beliefs with regard to the provision of…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Assignments, College Students, Foreign Countries
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Park, Seung Won; Kim, ChanMin – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2016
Poor student engagement with academic readings has been frequently reported in college classrooms. As an effort to improve college students' reading engagement, researchers have developed a virtual environment in which students take on the role of tutor and teach a virtual tutee, the virtual tutee system (VTS). This research examined the…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Academic Discourse, College Students, Reading Motivation
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Razi, Salim – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2016
Because students learn from each other as well as lecturers, it is important to create opportunities for collaboration in writing classes. Teachers now benefit from access to plagiarism detectors that can also provide feedback. This exploratory study considers the role of four review types, open and anonymous, involving the students themselves,…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Writing Skills, Feedback (Response), Writing Assignments
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Solbrekke, Tone Dyrdal; Helstad, Kristin – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
Teaching in higher education encompasses more than merely helping students develop knowledge and skills. It entails engaging students in their own formation as persons, professionals and citizens. From this perspective, this article investigates how approaches to teaching academic writing contribute to formation. By analysing a case from initial…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Student Development, Academic Discourse, Preservice Teacher Education
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