From ‘Story’ to Argument: The Acquisition of Academic Writing Skills in an Open-Learning Context  

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Hoadley-Maidment, Elizabeth

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Language and Education (Full Text) vol. 11 no. 1 (1997), page 55-68.
Fulltext: Vol. 11, No. 1, p 55-68.pdf (212.73KB)

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This paper examines the acquisition of academic writing skills by adult students studying by distance learning. A pilot study was carried out with students starting study in social sciences or arts and humanities with the Open University (UK). The study focused on student perceptions of learning academic writing skills measured through interviews and questionnaires. These were compared with tutor feedback comments on the students’ essays. Analysis of this data indicated that while the experience of Open University students is in many ways similar to that of all university students, the text-based nature of distance learning is an important variable. This affects both the way in which students acquire writing skills and the development of their identity as academic writers. Variations in the discourse of the academic subjects studied in multi-disciplinary courses also affected the learning process with differences being found between the arts and humanities students and social science students.

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