Developing Learners' Academic Writing Skills in Higher Education: A Study for Educational Reform

By N. Bacha. 2002

139 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Education, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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How researchers see this paper

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In Education

1. J. Goozée
2. M. Al-Khairy
3. C. Manathunga
4. Abdelhamid M. Ahmed
5. Susan R. Hemer

In Language and Linguistics

1. M. Al-Khairy
2. J. Goozée
3. C. Manathunga
4. Abdelhamid M. Ahmed

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. M. Al-Khairy
2. J. Goozée
3. C. Manathunga
4. Abdelhamid M. Ahmed

Citations in the corpus

• Students’ Problems with Cohesion and Coherence in EFL Essay Writing in Egypt: Different Perspectives (2010, background): “In the same vein, university lecturers reported that their student teachers have difficulty writing the thesis statement, the topic sentences, transition of ideas, and sequence of ideas.”
• Error Analysis of Written English Essays: The case of Students of the Preparatory Year Program in Saudi Arabia (2013, background): “…specifically writing through a practical research task, also helps to develop the students' cognitive skills in acquiring the necessary strategies such as analyzing results of a research task, inferring from the significant differences observed in comparing means, frequencies (Bacha, 2002, p.164).”
• Saudi English-Major Undergraduates' Academic Writing Problems: A Taif University Perspective (2013, background): “Much research conducted in the Arab world has reported that Arab students who are studying in institutions of higher education suffer from serious handicap in English language in general and writing in particular that make it very difficult for them to cope up with their higher studies effectively (”
• Challenging the dual assumption of the ‘always/already’ autonomous student and effective supervisor (2007, background): “In particular, students need to become acutely aware of the standardised academic 314 C. Manathunga and J. Goozée criteria, which govern the organisation, style and content of written material (Bacha, 2002).”