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Full-Text Articles in Education
A Word From The Writing Center (November 2017), Jennifer Wilson, Ms, Els
A Word From The Writing Center (November 2017), Jennifer Wilson, Ms, Els
A Word From the Writing Team (Newsletter)
This issue includes:
- Stylish academic writing
- The Write Stuff
Profiling Lexical Diversity In College-Level Writing, Melanie C. González
Profiling Lexical Diversity In College-Level Writing, Melanie C. González
Melanie González
An Evaluation Of Educational Values Of Youtube Videos For Academic Writing, Gbolahan Olasina
An Evaluation Of Educational Values Of Youtube Videos For Academic Writing, Gbolahan Olasina
The African Journal of Information Systems
The aim is to assess the impact of YouTube videos about academic writing and its skills on the writing performance of students. Theoretical perspectives from constructivism and associated learning models are used to inform the purpose of the research. The contextual setting is matriculation students awaiting admission to higher institutions. The population is 40 students belonging to a class aimed at assisting disadvantaged students in their academic writing in Scottsville, Province of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The students are broken into two groups – control/traditional teaching and the treatment/YouTube facilitated groups. Consequently, a dominant qualitative approach is adopted using focus group …
Connecting Genre-Based And Corpus-Driven Approaches In Research Articles: A Comparative Study Of Moves And Lexical Bundles In Saudi And International Journals, Basim M. Alamri
Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs
Research articles (RAs) have become the primary channel for researchers to circulate academic knowledge within certain discourse communities. Writing an acceptable research paper for publication in a scholarly journal is challenging for novice writers, especially for nonnative speakers of English. The present study was pedagogically motivated, and the ultimate goal was to provide the basis for a genre approach and corpus linguistics to academic writing for ESL/EFL postgraduate students in the field of applied linguistics.
The study analyzed the rhetorical structure and lexical bundles of English-language RAs—Introduction-Methods-Results-Discussion-Conclusion (I-M-R-D-C)—sections published in Saudi Arabian and international journals in the field of applied …
Communities Of Practice In Higher Education: Transformative Dialogues Toward A Productive Academic Writing Practice, Janelle De Carrico Voegele, Dannelle D. Stevens
Communities Of Practice In Higher Education: Transformative Dialogues Toward A Productive Academic Writing Practice, Janelle De Carrico Voegele, Dannelle D. Stevens
Curriculum and Instruction Faculty Publications and Presentations
Because faculty have advanced degrees, it is often assumed that they have perfected the skills needed to be productive, successful academic writers. In reality, many faculty struggle with the demands of academic writing and the resulting loss of energy for teaching and other aspects of their roles. This article reflects on the impact of an academic writing program through a community-of-practice lens. We describe the program and its elements, its development into a thriving cross-discipline writing community, the role of central program elements such as accountability and dialogue, and the benefits stemming from a learning-community emphasis across program elements
Lttc Resource Pack On Academic Writing & Referencing, Roisin Donnelly, Marian Fitzmaurice
Lttc Resource Pack On Academic Writing & Referencing, Roisin Donnelly, Marian Fitzmaurice
Other resources
The purpose of this guide is to support you in undertaking your written assignments for the postgraduate programmes in order to help you organise your work in alignment with academic writing requirements.