Academic Writing at the Doctoral and Professional Level in Engineering: The Current State of the Field and Pathways Forward

Writing in discipline-appropriate ways: An approach to teaching multilingual graduate students in mechanical engineering

“…For the purpose of this study, I review below only first two areas of interest. For a fuller review of the current landscape of graduate-level writing support available in engineering, readers should refer to Batson [4].…”

“…(2). By investigating rotor-to-rotor interactions, [4] found that the thrust coefficient is not affected by the separation distance, but the thrust fluctuations are heavily dependent on it, increasing as the separation length is decreased. (Vando, second draft of full-length manuscript) Laoshi, in his reflective presentation, shared his understanding of literature review in writing for publication purposes.…”

“…In surveys of employers and graduates [1]- [3], we witness a growing need for enhancing writing abilities of future engineers. Naturally, research on engineering writing has explored ways to provide course-level writing support for engineering students, especially for undergraduates [4]. Given that in U.S., students graduating with a bachelor's degree in engineering are mostly domestic-born native speakers of English [5], the current scholarship in Engineering Education has not yet addressed the specialized needs of foreignborn graduate-level multilingual students 1 for whom English is an additional language.…”

“…However, students' abilities to write scholarly and effectively in an Anglo-American context vary greatly when they enter the graduate programs [6]. This case is further complicated by a substantial enrollment of multilingual graduate students, who possess even more variable writing experience in different cultural contexts [4].…”