Academic Writing Needs of International Psychology PhDs in a South African University
Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Psychologia-Paedagogia, 2023 The paper examines the academic writing experience amongst international psychology PhD students at a South African public university. The paper also discusses the challenges of academic writing and the support structures of academic writing.
Samuel UMOH, Matshepo Catherine MATOANE
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Variables Impacting Academic Writing: An Investigation of First-year TVET Students’ Writing Performance [PDF]
E-Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2023 This study aimed to investigate the variables affecting first-year TVET students’ academic writing performance in South African Higher Education. The study was quantitative in nature and a purposive sampling technique was used to select participants. The
Angelo Meyers +2 more
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What do education students think about their ability to write essays ? [PDF]
, 2018 The present study reflects the results obtained from a diagnosis carried out with Education students concerning the writing of academic essays. The objective was to identify the perceptions that Comprehensive Education students have about their ability ...
Quintero, Gisela Consolación
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Academic writing as sociolinguistic practice: The case of academic writing in foreign language studies [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2023 Academic writing often poses considerable difficulties that have to do with the way academic writing courses are conceived and the skills students are taught within this context.
Evelyn Vovou
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Who wants to be able to do reference properly and be unemployed? STEM student writing and employer needs [PDF]
, 2012 The issue of graduate writing is one that has attracted much focus and debate in higher education, particularly around maintaining ‘academic standards’ at a time of expansion in this sector.
Appleby, Yvon +4 more
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Re-Envisioning Course-Embedded Programs at the Graduate Level: A Tutor's Experience in a Doctoral, Translingual Marketing Course [PDF]
, 2014 We were halfway through our Summer 2014, PhD-level, required University of Houston,2 Bauer College of Business class, MARK 8397: Communicating Academic Research, when Carol,3 a five-foot tall, thick-skinned, straight-shooting, endowed chair and ...
Hallman, Rebecca
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Pantoprazole for the Treatment of Peptic Ulcer Bleeding and Prevention of Rebleeding
Clinical Medicine Insights: Gastroenterology, 2012 Adding proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) to endoscopic therapy has become the mainstay of treatment for peptic ulcer bleeding, with current consensus guidelines recommending high-dose intravenous (IV) PPI therapy (IV bolus followed by continuous therapy ...
Christo J. Van Rensburg, Susan Cheer
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The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2021 An important role in socialising first-year students into universities is initiating them into different conventions of academic writing. Support programmes, such as writing centres, have been established in several South African universities to help ...
Nonhlanhla P. Khumalo, Sarasvathie Reddy
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Academic literacies twenty years on: a community-sourced literature review [PDF]
, 2019 In 1998, the paper ‘Student writing in higher education: an academic literacies approach’ by Mary Lea and Brian Street reinvigorated debate concerning ‘what it means to be academically literate’ (1998, p.158).
Hilsdon, John +2 more
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Writing effectively for English academic essays: an exploration of tertiary students’ challenges
Erudita, 2023 This study explores EFL students’ challenges in writing an academic essay in their academic writing class. The participants of the study were ten EFL students, especially students from Bengkayang Regency, West Kalimantan, in the Academic Writing classes ...
Hairul
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