Identifying the needs of postgraduate students: The first step of academic writing courses

Yuvayapan, Fatma; Bilginer, Hayriye

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“…It elaborated that students had weak command on syntax, lacked knowledge of rhetorical devices, and were untrained in using citation and referencing correctly. A Turkish study found similar results (Yuvayapan & Bilginer, 2020). The study investigated the Master's and PhD students' enrolled in private and public universities.…”

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Exploring the Academic Writing Problems Faced by Pakistani PhD Students

Sultan,

Bano Kazimi

2023

J.educ.soc.sci

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Academic writing is an advanced and specialized form of communication used in academia to communicate the outcomes of scientific research. Academic writing is, hence, governed by the rules, conventions, and values of the scientific community. It is even more significant in today's knowledge based economies. Knowledge-based economies rely on continuous research and development for progress rather than the natural resources. The human capital forms the backbone of a knowledge-based economy. Hence, in such an economy, researchers and scholars enjoy great importance and academic writing skills become crucial along with research skills due to the need to share the outcomes of scientific research with the target readers. Academic writing is now viewed as a part of the research process. As per the National Education Policy (2009) of Pakistan, the nation aspires to become a knowledge-based economy. Therefore, the policy directs the universities to train scholars in disciplinary research skills as well as communication skills. However, many Pakistani studies have reported that the faculty and the students in Pakistani higher education possess inadequate command on English and writing skills. Hence, this study explored the difficulties encountered by Pakistani PhD students in academic writing and it also sought to bring to light the strategies used by the students to overcome these problems. Semi-structured interviews were used to collect data from 15 students working on their PhD thesis/synopsis. Students' writing samples were also analyzed. As per the findings, the students possessed insufficient command on academic English and research writing skills. The study explains the students' writing problems in detail and recommends that academic writing courses be taught as a mandatory part of the Master's and PhD curriculum to address this problem.

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Exploring the Academic Writing Problems Faced by Pakistani PhD Students

Sultan,

Bano Kazimi

2023

J.educ.soc.sci

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“…Additionally, since they can aid in the development of postgraduate students' research skills and confidence, activities like peer-to-peer mentoring and cooperation should be promoted for them. In light of the initial challenges faced by postgraduate students in crafting academic writing, like finding resources and techniques (Singh, 2019), further research has shown that the advanced form of grammar is a significant challenge for postgraduate students, in addition to factors including lack of English competence, difficulties expressing ideas, disordered structure, and plagiarism in writing text (Yuvayapan & Bilginer, 2020). This suggests that the vast majority of graduate students need better grammar proficiency.…”

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An Investigation into the Challenges and Strategies Utilization in Academic Writing: A Case Study of Indonesian Postgraduate Students

Muryani,

Romadhon,

Mustofa

2024

VELES

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This study explores into the challenges encountered by postgraduate students in the realm of academic writing,along with the strategies they employ to tackle these hurdles and the resources aiding their writing process.Employing narrative inquiry as the research design, the study aimed to facilitate a comprehensive explorationof these issues. The participants consisted of ten postgraduate students enrolled at a private university inIndonesia. The research methodology involved conducting interviews with these students to uncover thestrategies and tools utilized by English Master's degree students to achieve success in academic writing.Primary difficulties identified included challenges in organizing coherent content, sourcing relevant referencesto bolster arguments, navigating spatial constraints when expressing ideas, and accurately interpreting data.The findings revealed that digital resources, such as scholarly websites and databases, emerged as the primarysources for accessing journals and articles. In contrast, printed materials played a diminished role due to theiroutdated nature. The study underscores the importance of understanding these inherent challenges in writingand leveraging available strategies and resources to enhance writing skills, thereby enabling postgraduatestudents to produce high-quality research papers.

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“…For a multitude of reasons, academic writing is challenging for English language learners who are not native speakers (Yuvayapan & Bilginer, 2020). The researcher observed and asked some undergraduate students at the seventh-semester English education study program in FKIP UNTAN about problems they face when writing a proposal.…”

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An Analysis of Students' Problems in Writing a Research Proposal

Rastri¹,

Rezeki²,

Salam³

et al. 2023

acit.j.teach.educ.

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This research aimed to determine undergraduate students’ problems and factors causing the problems in writing a research proposal. Ninety-one English Education Study Program undergraduate students in FKIP Universitas Tanjungpura, Pontianak, West Kalimantan, participated in this research. This descriptive research used forty items in a questionnaire as the instrument modified from Dwihandini, Marhaeni, and Suarnajaya’s (2013) model. The model utilized three factors causing students’ problems in writing a research proposal, namely (1) psychological factors, (2) socio-cultural factors, and (3) linguistic factors. To report the findings of the results, the researcher used the descriptive statistics technique to display each factor's percentage score. The findings indicated that the score of linguistic factors got the highest (75,49%), which highly affected students' writing in research proposals. The conclusion is each factor causes problems, so it affects students in writing a research proposal, and linguistic factors become the dominant factor among others.

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Identifying the needs of postgraduate students: The first step of academic writing courses

Cited by 10 publications

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Exploring the Academic Writing Problems Faced by Pakistani PhD Students

Exploring the Academic Writing Problems Faced by Pakistani PhD Students

An Investigation into the Challenges and Strategies Utilization in Academic Writing: A Case Study of Indonesian Postgraduate Students

An Analysis of Students' Problems in Writing a Research Proposal

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