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Ahmed, Abdel Hamid Mohamed Abdel Hamid. "The EFL essay writing difficulties of Egyptian student teachers of English : implications for essay writing curriculum and instruction." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/120146.

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The current study is conducted with the aim of investigating the essay writing difficulties of Egyptian student teachers of English. More specifically, it attempts to fulfil the following three aims: explore the focuses of teaching essay writing at one of the pioneering faculties of education in Egypt; investigate the different essay writing practices used by Egyptian essay writing teachers from teachers as well as their students’ perspectives; and identify the essay writing difficulties encountered by Egyptian student teachers of English at the concerned faculty of education from both student

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Solagha, Omta Zoi. "Writing Difficulties in the Swedish ESL-Classroom : How teachers of English deal with students’ writing difficulties." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för språkdidaktik, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-94207.

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This study covers a research within the area of writing difficulties in the ESL classroom (English as second language). This essay aims to look at teachers’ attitudes towards working with writing difficulties and also how teachers deal with this issue in the classroom. The data for this study was collected through the qualitative method; interviews and observations. The informants who participated in this study are English teachers, working in year 7-9. The observations were conducted during the informants’ lessons. Previous research has also been used in this study in order to establish the t

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Lumadi, Thabelo Zacharia. "Teaching strategies that teachers use to improve reading and writing in English as first additional language : case study." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1763.

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Thesis (M. Ed.) -- University of Limpopo, 2016<br>This study reflects on the teaching strategies that that teachers use to improve reading and writing in English FAL in the Acornhoek area of Mpumalanga Province. Since the study wanted to have an in-depth understanding of the strategies that teachers use to improve reading and writing, a qualitative methodology was used. It is within this methodology that a case study was adopted whereby three methods of data collection were used, namely: interviewing, observation and documents. Two schools were selected as sites for the study by means of purp

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Tuomey, Enda. "Discussing writing : peer feedback on writing essays in an online forum for learners of English." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2014. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/71540/.

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This case study investigated feedback, interaction, and knowledge creation in an asynchronous discussion forum in which learners of English provided peer feedback on short argument essays for the IELTS test, a gatekeeper English exam used for immigration or university entrance. Over eleven months, a small but active group of intermediate and advanced learners from many countries changed participation from seeking feedback to giving complex macro-level feedback on each other’s writing, changing their perceptions of peer editing and improving their own writing, while a much larger group engaged

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Tsiriotakis, Ioanna K. "Writing Difficulties and Feelings of Anxiety during the Acquisition of English as a Foreign Language." Thesis, University of Crete (Greece), 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10857326.

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<p> The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of explicit, structured strategybased procedural facilitation in writing, fostering cognitive apprenticeship and selfregulation strategies, (Bereiter, and Scardamalia, 1987, Spantidakis, 2010) along with its effects on the anxiety levels of fifth and sixth grade English language learners studying at a mainstream primary school in Chania, Crete, Greece. Specifically, the current study examined whether structured instruction in writing and self-regulation strategies, guided by strategy-based procedural facilitation in writing, would

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Zghyer, Rima Nassar. "ARAB STUDENTS' DIFFICULTIES WITH ENGLISH WRITING DURING THEIR TRANSITION TO THE UNITED STATES: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY." OpenSIUC, 2014. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/897.

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Many research studies have been conducted in Arab countries to examine the difficulties that Arab students encounter in learning English writing. Unfortunately, not much of that scholarship deals with the challenges that these second language learners face when they pursue degrees abroad. Furthermore, the earlier studies failed to include the students' views about their difficulties, the causes, and possible solutions. In an effort to fill the gap in our understanding of the problems Arab students face in learning to write in English, this study explores the experiences and perceptions of a s

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Strode, Derick Brandon. "Foreclosure and Other Essays." TopSCHOLAR®, 2012. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1228.

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My dad had early onset Alzheimer’s disease. I first knew something was wrong with him in 1995. He was 49 then, and I was just about to start the eighth grade. That’s the summer his company backed him into a corner and told him to quit or be fired. He had worked there 14 years. They said his behavior was changing, and they thought he was doing it on purpose. It took seven years to get an actual diagnosis. The doctors looked for everything. They just thought he was too young. I’ve relied on materials found in my parents’ house from those days. But I’ve also let my imagination run, and added some

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Grant, Sofia. "An Analysis of English Essays Written by Swedish Students." Thesis, Högskolan i Gävle, Avdelningen för humaniora, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-23572.

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The aim of this study is to analyse essays written in English by Swedish pupils and to map the most common errors made in written communication. The grammatical features selected for the analysis are prepositions, articles, verb forms, subject-verb agreement and word order. Furthermore, the errors will be grouped and ranked according to the Obligatory Occasion Analysis not only to assess the pupils’ development but also to help the teachers to prepare for their lesson planning.

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Santos, Krystin. "AUTO-FEM: ESSAYS." UKnowledge, 2018. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/english_etds/72.

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Auto Fem: Essays is a nonfiction essay collection revolving around one young woman’s family and their relationship to the motors that accelerate familial bonds. Each motor-related essay brings readers deeper into the admiration of speed and the environment that surrounds it. The essays span from the author's childhood into adulthood, revealing the different ways a woman is sexualized within these subcultures. This sexualization leads to internal battles for the female participant that result in sometimes toxic eating habits and a complicated body image. The author provides a sometimes brutal,

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Mamo, Josianne. "Then the Cicadas Sang : a novel ; and, Two essays on translingual writing." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2018. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/30637/.

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This thesis consists of two parts: a creative work and two critical essays on translingual writing. The creative component, Then the Cicadas Sang, is a novel set in 1940s Malta. It is a story about love and aspiration. As a teenage girl, Mari vouches she will do anything to leave the tiny island she lives on. Foreigners – the British who governed the island at the time – and books give her a glimpse of the world beyond her shores. But she craves for more, unaware of what she risks losing by chasing her dreams. The novel deals with how books shape our imagination, how the languages we speak giv

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Butler, Michele Jean. "Understanding the aesthetic effect of the familiar essay and its importance in the composition class." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1987. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/406.

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Kinkade, Natalie. "Fox Dreams and Other Essays." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1620380678047587.

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Farida, Nevin. "A textual and contextual study of English language and literature essays : the case of First Year English Department students' writing in Dhaka University, Bangladesh." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1109/.

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This research examines English language and literature essays written by First Year students of the English Department at Dhaka University (Bangladesh) using multi-method genre analysis. The first method used was text analysis. Essay topics were analysed from the two contexts to identify their topic fields and main rhetorical functions. This helped develop the two models to analyse the structure of essays: an Exposition-Discussion model and a Description-Recount model. Then, a total of 100 essays from the two contexts were analysed on the basis of Move-strategy structure to see what structural

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Rosett, Isabelle George. "Voices of Ancient Women: Stories and Essays on Persephone and Medusa." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2017. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1008.

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This thesis combines art historical analysis and creative writing in a collection of essays and short stories centered on the myths of Persephone and Medusa. Ancient art, text, and context is considered in the essays, while the stories approach these subjects on a more contemporary and personal level.

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Tangpijaikul, Montri. "The Thai university student's fine-tuning of discourse in academic essays and electronic bulletin boards performance and competence /." Phd thesis, Australia : Macquarie University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/73139.

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Thesis (DAppLing)--Macquarie University, Faculty of Human Sciences, Dept. of Linguistics, 2009.<br>Bibliography: p. 208-233.<br>Introduction -- Conceptual frameworks: language competence and the acquisition of modality -- Generic frameworks: speech, writing and electronic communication -- Linguistic frameworks: modality and related concepts -- Research design and methodologies -- FTDs in the ACAD and BB corpora -- Learner's use of FTDs in discoursal context and their individual repertoires -- Conclusions and implications.<br>While natural interaction is one of the important components that lea

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Nondabula, Nikiwe. "Investigating the Teaching and Learning of Creative Writing in English First Additional Language in selected Grade 9 classrooms in the Western Cape." University fo the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7509.

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Magister Educationis - MEd<br>Writing is an important aspect of language learning and a tool for assessment in Basic and Higher Education across the globe. Learners need to acquire proficient writing skills to learn and to demonstrate their knowledge and creativity. Given the importance of creative writing in expressing one’s thoughts, emotions and imagination, this study sought to investigate how creative writing was taught through the medium of English First Additional Language (FAL) to Grade 9 learners in one primary school in the Western Cape province. It also sought to observe and analyse

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Boström, Elin. "“Once upon a time there was a boy named Carl” : A study on the effects of scaffolding on the performance of students with reading and writing difficulties." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-67552.

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The aim of this study is to investigate what difficulties Swedish students with reading and writing difficulties may encounter when they write texts in English. A teaching experiment was done to see whether scaffolding, a process where the teacher shows the overall structure of e.g. a text, can help students with reading and writing difficulties improve their writing in English. Ten students in the 7th grade participated in the study, as well as four English teachers in a secondary school in Sweden. The students who participated were asked to write two texts in English. Before writing the firs

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Lemmouh, Zakaria. "The Relationship among Vocabulary Knowledge, Academic Achievement and the Lexical Richness in Writing in Swedish University Students of English." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Engelska institutionen, 2010. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-42765.

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The main aims of the thesis are: to explore the development of Swedish university students’ vocabulary knowledge, size and depth and vocabulary use (i.e. lexical richness) in their written output, to examine the relationship between these, their relationship to examination grades, and to investigate how these relationships develop over time. The results showed that over one year of university studies stronger links between the two dimensions of vocabulary knowledge, size and depth are established. No relationship was found between informants’ vocabulary size and lexical richness. However, a mo

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Lunn, Marina Santhiago Dantas. "A escrita em inglês na pós-graduação: dificuldades, convergências e divergências nas percepções de discentes e docentes." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8147/tde-20082018-164814/.

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A crescente internacionalização do ensino superior (MOROSINI, 2006) tem feito com que tanto instituições financiadoras quanto universidades pressionem pesquisadores a publicarem internacionalmente (MUELLER, 2000). Visando a aumentar a visibilidade da pesquisa local dentro do cenário acadêmico internacional (FLOWERDEW, 1999), a publicação em periódicos com alto fator de impacto geralmente ocorre em inglês, a língua franca das ciências (HÜLMBAUER et al., 2008). Entretanto, publicar em inglês, que desafia pesquisadores não nativos de inglês em geral (OLIVEIRA, ZUCOLOTTO E ALUÍSIO, 2006), é ainda

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Borg, Erika. "ICT as a pedagogical aid for supporting students with difficulties in their acquisition of English : An interview study and an action research study." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-6222.

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<p><strong>Abstract </strong></p><p>The aim of this study is to investigate some uses of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a pedagogical aid for supporting students with difficulties in reaching the curricular goals in the school subject English. Special focus is on students with reading and writing difficulties and on students with a foreign background in the ninth grade of the compulsory school and in upper secondary school. The method of investigation consisted of two parts: (a) interviews with eleven regular English teachers and with four remedial teachers about their exper

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Jackson, Janet Ruth. "A coat of ashes: A collection of poems, incorporating a metafictional narrative - and - Poetry, Daoism, physics and systems theory: a poetics: A set of critical essays." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2018. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2125.

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This thesis comprises a book-length creative work accompanied by a set of essays. It explores how poetry might bring together spiritual and scientific discourses, focusing primarily on philosophical Daoism (Taoism) and contemporary physics. Systems theory (the science of complex and self-organising systems) is a secondary focus of the creative work and is used metaphorically in theorising the writing process. The creative work, “A coat of ashes”, is chiefly concerned with the nature of being. It asks, “What is?”, “What am I?” and, most urgently, “What matters?”. To engage with these questions,

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Olsson, Sofia. "Läs- och skrivsvårigheter och engelska som främmande språk : Åtgärdsprogram i engelska för elever i läs- och skrivsvårigheter." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-75490.

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Sear, Vashti Louise. "The role of underpreparedness in the difficulties experienced by second-language students with academic essay writing." Thesis, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/5401.

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Using first-year, Psychology I examination essays, the role of underpreparedness in the difficulties experienced by English second-language students in academic essay writing was investigated. Essays were selected from each of four performance categories; over 70%, between 650/0 and 50%. between 45% and 35%, and below 30%. A representative sample of English first-language essays were also selected to provide important comparative analyses, in order to clearly delineate the nature of linguistic and cognitive contributions to the phenomenon of underpreparedness. The essays were subjected to thre

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Wu, Ya-wen, and 吳雅雯. "Writing Strategies and Writing Difficulties among College Students of Differing English Proficiency." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98311855855952092389.

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碩士<br>國立屏東商業技術學院<br>應用外語系<br>95<br>Use of strategies is a key to learner autonomy. Up to date, very few empirical studies have explored writing strategies, in particular, in the context of EFL. The purpose of the study was to examine writing strategies and writing difficulties among college students with different levels of English proficiency. 184 English majors were asked to complete two questionnaires of writing strategies and writing difficulties. Several significant results were found in this survey research. First, writing strategies were moderately used among college students. Sec

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Lee, Chia-fang, and 李佳芳. "Strategy Use, Learning Motivation and Writing Difficulties of Non-English Majors." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/78715941605964878558.

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碩士<br>國立屏東商業技術學院<br>應用外語系<br>97<br>Strategy use and learning motivation both played the important roles in language learning. However, few studies were conducted to explore the relationship between strategy use and learning motivation of college students in Taiwan (Chang & Huang, 1999). Therefore, the purpose of the present study attempted to examine how strategy use and motivation of non-English majors were related. This study contained three sets of questionnaires and the participants were 331 senior non-English majors who studied in business-related departments from two national technologic

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Jacobson, Laura Thompson. "Improving the writing performance of high school students with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder and writing difficulties." 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1858625331&sid=9&Fmt=2&clientId=14215&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2009.<br>Title from title screen (site viewed October 15, 2009). PDF text: v, 121 p. : col. ill. ; 531 Kb. UMI publication number: AAT 3369352. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

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Lee, Annie, and 李姵萱. "A Case Study of Taiwanese Vocational High School Students'' English Writing Strategies and Writing Difficulties." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/20939113095690264633.

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碩士<br>銘傳大學<br>應用英語學系碩士在職專班<br>100<br>Vocational high school students in Taiwan receive little attention on their English writing. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate these EFL learners’ English language learning strategies and their difficulties in English writing. The participants are fifteen senior vocational high school female students majoring in accounting. Each participant was informed to perform a writing task of an assigned topic by the researcher. After completing the writing task, a semi-structured interview was conducted with each participant. Interview questio

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Shoau, Wei-chiung, and 蕭惟中. "The Effect of Different Error Treatments on College Students' English Writing Essays." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59973505060484230701.

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碩士<br>國立屏東商業技術學院<br>應用英語系(所)<br>100<br>Although many studies have dealt with different kinds of error corrections and the effects on student writing, a more appropriate way to give feedback is seldom found in previous research. The present study revealed a more effective way to correct students’ English writing essays through a series of practice on various kinds of error treatments: underlining only, underlining with hints, direct correction, and Chinese description only. Ninety two college freshmen majoring in applied English were recruited in the present study in their spring semesters in 2

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Portillo, Natalie. "Opinion Writing of Native Spanish and Native English Speakers in College Developmental Education Courses." Thesis, 2021. https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-r4e6-ba32.

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The aim of this study is to examine argumentative writing produced by students of differing language backgrounds and skill level to inform future instructional approaches and program design. An archival corpus of opinion essays written by native Spanish speaking students and native English speaking students enrolled in community college developmental education courses was utilized. The essays consisted of one to two paragraphs expressing an opinion on a controversial topic. In the study, the essays were assessed for the overall persuasiveness of the text, the use of academic words, the incor

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Dikgari, Ngokoana Magdeline. "The implementation of the process approach to the writing of english essays in rural grade 12 classes in the Moroke Circuit." Thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2447.

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Thesis (M.A. (English)) --University of Limpopo, 2011.<br>In 2008, the National Department of Education in South Africa introduced a new curriculum known as the National Curriculum Statement (NCS) in the Grade 12 classes. Prior to the introduction of this new curriculum, the writing of essays in Grade 12 classes was treated as a once-off activity. The focus on essay activities was mainly on the product and after the assessment of such product-driven essays, teachers had no further interest in them except for recording marks when necessary. The paucity of interaction between teachers and

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"Investigating the Teaching and Learning of Creative Writing in English First Additional Language in selected Grade 9 classrooms in the Western Cape." University of the Western Cape, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/8299.

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Magister Educationis - MEd<br>In this study, it is assumed that non-mother tongue speakers of English are faced with the difficulty of writing and learning in English first additional language (FAL) or second language. In the context of Cape Town, this applies to isiXhosa mother-tongue speaking learners who are taught in an additional language, while their counterparts who speak either English or Afrikaans as a home language are taught through the medium of their home languages from primary to tertiary education. Snow (2014:17) claims that learners acquire academic language skills in the

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Du, Plessis Karoline. "Action research on the implementation of writing approaches to improve academic writing skills of namibian foundation programme students." Diss., 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/6051.

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Foundation Programme (FP) students at the University of Namibia (UNAM) Oshakati Campus display inadequate academic writing abilities. As their aim is to gain admittance to UNAM main campus science-related courses, it is vital to have effective academic writing skills. This action research (AR) study is a comparison of three writing programmes, the process approach, the modeling approach, and the process genre approach which were implemented separately to three different class groups in 2008 and 2009 to improve the writing skills of students and the teaching practice of the researcher. The effe

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Ward-Cox, Maxine Welland. "Validation of a rating scale for distance education university student essays in a literature-based module." Thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26935.

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This thesis reports on the findings of a study to validate an assessment scale for writing in an Open Distance Learning (ODL) context by first-year students in their responses to English literary texts. The study involved the interrogation of an existing scale, adapted from Jacobs et al. (1981), which was being used for the Foundations in English Literary Studies (ENG1501) module at the University of South Africa. Despite the credibility of the original scale, the modified version had been used in language- and literature-based courses in the English Studies Department since 1998 and had

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