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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)
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
Coleman, Lynn – Teaching in Higher Education, 2016
This paper argues that curriculum decision-making in the South African University of Technology (UoT) environment is affected not only by industry and disciplinary demands, but also by socio-structural features and ideologies particular to this educational sector. It supports the view that recontextualisation processes are subject to multiple…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Higher Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
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
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
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
Kwak, Subeom – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2017
Since it was first introduced in 2008, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have been attracting a lot of interest. Since then, MOOCs have emerged as powerful platforms for teaching and learning academic writing. However, there has been no detailed investigation of academic writing MOOCs. As a result, much uncertainty still exists about the…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Large Group Instruction, Academic Discourse, Writing (Composition)
Razi, Salim – Research-publishing.net, 2016
This study compares the impact of "open" and "anonymous" peer feedback as an adjunct to teacher-mediated feedback in a digital online environment utilising data gathered on an academic writing course at a Turkish university. Students were divided into two groups with similar writing proficiencies. Students peer reviewed papers…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Feedback (Response), Online Courses, Academic Discourse
Al Murshidi, Ghadah – English Language Teaching, 2014
The study examines writing challenges Emirati and Saudi students face at U.S. universities. Based on a sample of 219, a mixed methods approach was used to analyze responses from the participants. The results of the questionnaire reveal that Less than 31% Emirati and Saudi students feel "comfortable" in completing written assignments. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Foreign Students, Mixed Methods Research, Questionnaires
Alsied, Safia Mujtaba; Ibrahim, Noura Winis – IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 2017
Research is conducted all over the world to solve problems or to answer questions of significance to humanity. Academic writing or writing to report research is not easy because it requires adequate background knowledge, interest, motivation and hard work. This study investigates the major challenges in research writing faced by Libyan EFL…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Instruction, Writing (Composition), Second Language Learning
Zaini, A.; Mazdayasna, G. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2015
The current study investigated the application and effectiveness of computer assisted language learning (CALL) in teaching academic writing to Iranian EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners by means of Microsoft Word Office. To this end, 44 sophomore intermediate university students majoring in English Language and Literature at an Iranian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
Wolfersberger, Mark – Language Assessment Quarterly, 2013
This article argues that task representation should be considered as part of the construct of classroom-based academic writing. Task representation is a process that writers move through when creating a unique mental model of the requirements for each new writing task they encounter. Writers' task representations evolve throughout the composing…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Reading, Comprehension, Persuasive Discourse
Perryman-Clark, Staci M. – College Composition and Communication, 2013
For the past few decades, composition researchers have devoted critical attention to studying the ways that African American students employ Africanized linguistic and rhetorical patterns successfully in expository writing situations. More recently, research has focused on the use of African-based rhetorical patterns, since the use of African…
Descriptors: African American Students, Writing Assignments, Language Patterns, Black Dialects
Chew, Esyin; Ding, Seong Lin; Rowell, Gill – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2015
Considering the change of attitudes of plagiarism detection to assessment for learning, it is necessary to explore the effect of the paradigm shift for Turnitin, from "plagiarism detection" to self-service learning aid. Two research questions are explored in the present study: (1) How Turnitin augments self-service skills of students and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Plagiarism, Identification, Attitude Change
Teeter, Jennifer – English Language Teaching, 2015
In this study, a qualitative analysis of 276 first-year Japanese university science major responses to plagiarism to deconstruct prevailing generalizations regarding the incidence of plagiarism by Japanese university students. These students were enrolled in a compulsory yearlong English academic writing course. While utilizing a contextualized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research, College Students, Science Instruction