Academic writing is one of the skills needed by students, especially postgraduate students. However, there were still many writing problems experienced by Islamic Education Management Postgraduate ...students of IAIN Curup batch 2020. Therefore, it was necessary to develop a learning model for Academic Writing course. This study aims to investigate the development of a learning model in the Academic Writing course. This study used 4D development research model (Define, Design, Develop, and Disseminate). The result of the study shows that the learning model in the Academic Writing course was carried out into these stages: prewriting stage, drafting stage, responding stage, revising stage, and evaluating stage. By carrying out the academic writing course, there were improvements in the writing skills of the postgraduate students. In the prewriting stage, it was observed that the students had already the skills needed to be possessed in the pre-writing stage. Then in the writing stage, the students had possesed skills in processing or analyzing data, and the students also had been able to revise their writings. This research produced a learning module for the Academic Writing course that has been refined from the modules used so far. The contribution of learning academic writing is in the academic writing course which teaches writing systematics, rules for writing, reference management, how to submit articles to nationally reputable journals, paraphrasing. The results of this course can be seen from student articles which have been published in many accredited journals Sinta 3 and Sinta 4.
Metadiscourse is the commentary on a text made by its producer in the course of speaking or writing. Here we take an interpersonal perspective, focusing on metadiscourse as a repertoire of resources ...available for writers to organise a discourse or their stance towards its content or the reader. In this paper we explore whether, and to what extent, metadiscourse has changed in professional writing in different disciplines over the past 50 years. Extending our diachronic work analysing a corpus of 2.2 million words from articles in the top journals in four disciplines, we show there has been a significant increase in interactive features and a significant decrease in interactional types. Surprisingly, interactional metadiscourse shows a marked decline in the discursive soft knowledge fields and a substantial increase in the science subjects.
•We explore changes in metadiscourse features in articles over 50 years in 4 disciplines.•A significant increase in interactive features and a significant decrease in interactional types.•Interactive features have risen in all fields.•Interactional types declined in soft knowledge fields and increased in the sciences.•The results suggest considerable changes in rhetorical conventions of interaction.
Objective: This report aims to investigate the international activities and support required by members of the Japan Society of Nursing Research (JSNR) from the International Activities Promotion ...Committee. Methods: An online survey was conducted among 5,419 JSNR members between June and July 2022. The questionnaire contained items regarding international activities and the support required from the International Activities Promotion Committee in relation to English academic writing skills, collaborations, and interactions with overseas academic societies, financial support for conference participation, and financial support for submitting papers to English journals. Results: We received 211 responses (response rate: 3.9%). Academic writing was perceived by 81.2% of the respondents as the most significant support required from the International Activities Promotion Committee. A lack of confidence in English was the most common barrier to international activities among those who had not attended an international conference or submitted a paper in English in the past 10 years. Conclusions: English academic writing seminars and practical seminars for international activities should be conducted for JSNR members.
Objective: This report aims to investigate the international activities and support required by members of the Japan Society of Nursing Research (JSNR) from the International Activities Promotion ...Committee. Methods: An online survey was conducted among 5,419 JSNR members between June and July 2022. The questionnaire contained items regarding international activities and the support required from the International Activities Promotion Committee in relation to English academic writing skills, collaborations, and interactions with overseas academic societies, financial support for conference participation, and financial support for submitting papers to English journals. Results: We received 211 responses (response rate: 3.9%). Academic writing was perceived by 81.2% of the respondents as the most significant support required from the International Activities Promotion Committee. A lack of confidence in English was the most common barrier to international activities among those who had not attended an international conference or submitted a paper in English in the past 10 years. Conclusions: English academic writing seminars and practical seminars for international activities should be conducted for JSNR members.
This study explores the use of Exemplification in undergraduate students’ academic writing at a university in Lesotho. Research indicates that Exemplification is a prevalent feature of academic ...writing. However, it has also been established that learners experience difficulties in forming and using Exemplification effectively. Using a corpus created from research projects written by final year undergraduate students in six faculties at a university in Lesotho, the study examined the use of Exemplification, focusing on the exemplification markers students used, the patterns of exemplification as well as the errors in using exemplification effectively. Findings indicate that students used a limited set of exemplification markers and only a few patterns. It was also observed that students had challenges using exemplification appropriately. The study concludes that there is a need for explicit teaching of Exemplification in EAP classes.
In this text, we carry out an approach to academic writing, understood as a point of articulation between the linguistic and the discursive. As a reference we use concepts from Discourse Analysis, as ...theory and methodology of reading, to which we associate the principles of evidentiary reading. The corpus was comprised of six Professional Master’s theses in Letters (Profletras), in which we analyze the processes of articulation of enunciations in the text, more specifically, syntactic and discursive arrangements. Based on the analysis, we dialogue about the forms of appropriation of discourse, understood as modes of saying the speech of the Other. The reading-writing of the corpus allowed us to construe three forms of appropriation – performative, rhetorical, and knowledge. The more expressive presence of the first two indicated the existence, in the texts analyzed, of protocol writing, in which the cited speech is kept far apart from the subject it cites by assymetry, upholding the ideology that in it is the truth it seeks.
Building on recent work in rhetoric and composition that takes an historical materialist approach,Dangerous Writingoutlines a political economic theory of composition. The book connects pedagogical ...practices in writing classes to their broader political economic contexts, and argues that the analytical power of students' writing is prevented from reaching its potential by pressures within the academy and without, that tend to wed higher education with the aims and logics of "fast-capitalism."Since the 1980s and the "social turn" in composition studies and other disciplines, scholars in this field have conceived writing in college as explicitly embedded in socio-rhetorical situations beyond the classroom. From this conviction develops a commitment to teach writing with an emphasis on analyzing the social and political dimensions of rhetoric.Ironically, though a leftist himself, Tony Scott's analysis finds the academic left complicit with the forces in American culture that tend, in his view, to compromise education. By focusing on the structures of labor and of institutions that enforce those structures, Scott finds teachers and administrators are too easily swept along with the inertia of a hyper-commodified society in which students---especially working class students---are often positioned as commodities, themselves.Dangerous Writing, then, is a critique of the field as much as it is a critique of capitalism. Ultimately, Scott's eye is on the institution and its structures, and it is these that he finds most in need of transformation.
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