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Toba, Rostanti; Noor, Widya Noviana; Sanu, La Ode – Dinamika Ilmu, 2019
The aim of this study is to investigate issues of Indonesian EFL students' writing skills, covering ability, problem and reason why they got problems in writing comparison and contrast essay. The convergent parallel of mixed methods was used to explore these issues by involving 52 EFL students of IAIN Samarinda who enrolled the academic essay…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing Skills, English (Second Language), English Language Learners
Zwagerman, Sean – Education Canada, 2012
The value of grammar instruction in improving students' writing has been debated for at least 150 years, and is showing no signs of tiring. But would teaching grammar actually improve writing? In fact, study after study has shown that the study of grammar does not translate to improved student writing. Indeed, the basic skills of writing are not…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing Improvement, Basic Skills, Paragraph Composition
Air Univ., Gunter AFS, Ala. Extension Course Inst. – 1984
One of six related documents, making up a U.S. Air Force correspondence course, this publication deals with effective writing and emphasizes the sentence as the basic unit of written communication. Part one focuses on internal sentence punctuation and covers the use of the comma, semicolon, colon, period, capital, abbreviations, and numbers. Part…
Descriptors: Armed Forces, Extension Education, Grammar, Paragraph Composition
Peters, P. H. – Writing Instructor, 1985
Examines the lexis of two university students and identifies their styles and competence levels. (DF)
Descriptors: Academic Aptitude, Coherence, Cohesion (Written Composition), Comparative Analysis