Cohesion and Coherence in Final Project Abstracts Written by Non-English Department Undergraduate Students

Creating text needs to be understood that it is not only about arranging the words into sentences and paragraphs but also delivering meaning. Unfortunately, not everyone can achieve good skills in writing. This study aims at analyzing the writing skills of a group of Indonesian non-English department undergraduate students. It focused on the cohesion and coherence of their production of the final project abstract. Ten texts were analyzed by employing a discourse analytical case study. Thus, it is an important matter to analyze the writing competency of students as they are at the undergraduate level, majoring in Informatics Engineering that should report their final project in English. In this study, a theory from Halliday and Matthiessen (2014) was used to analyze the cohesion while a theory from Eggins (2004), Thornburry (2005), and Paltridge and Starfield (2007) were used to analyze the coherence. An open-ended questionnaire was used to confirm the result of the analysis according to the writers’ point of view. The findings indicate that the students show a bit of weakness in achieving cohesion and coherence in creating texts due to a lack of knowledge about the theory of cohesion and coherence. The result of the study can be used as a reference and consideration in designing a suitable lesson plan for writing class.

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Writing Skills Development for Graduate Studies and Career Readiness in Science and Aging Fields: A Case Study Approach

Frontiers in Public Health ◽

10.3389/fpubh.2021.727064 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

Author(s):

Amanda Stafford McRell ◽

Betty L. Wilson ◽

Sue E. Levkoff

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Qualitative Interviews ◽

Writing Skills ◽

Underrepresented Students ◽

Fellowship Training ◽

Career Readiness ◽

Graduate Studies ◽

Study Approach ◽

Writing Class

Increasing the number of racially and ethnically underrepresented students who pursue scientific graduate studies in programs focusing on science and aging offers an opportunity to increase the number of aging specialists while simultaneously promoting diversity in the research labor market and supporting new ideas. This case study aims to better understand how students participating in an academic preparatory program experience a writing class contextualized within (1) students' writing background and (2) students' future ambitions related to science and aging. The individually-tailored writing class was taught as a critical component of a comprehensive educational program that targets underrepresented racial and ethnic minority undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing scientific graduate studies in fields related to aging. The researchers conducted semi-structured qualitative interviews with students (n = 4) enrolled in the 24-month fellowship training program, which included participation in the writing course during the summer prior to their senior year of undergraduate education. All participants were young adult college students who identified as Black or African American and female. Using thematic coding, statements about professional writing skills were divided into four primary themes: (1) prior experiences, (2) class experiences, (3) future goals and ambitions, and (4) structural considerations. These themes suggest potential implications for effective interventions aimed to advance the writing skills and academic and career readiness of racially and ethnically diverse students entering fields of science and aging.

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Actividades de escritura de propuestas en una clase de Química Inorgánica avanzada a nivel pre-doctoral

Educación Química ◽

10.22201/fq.18708404e.2018.4.64766 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 29 (4) ◽

pp. 28

Author(s):

Peter Josue Rosado Flores

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Technical Writing ◽

Writing Skills ◽

Cutting Edge ◽

Undergraduate Level ◽

Graduate Degrees ◽

Proposal Writing ◽

Writing Class ◽

Funding Opportunities ◽

The Cost

With cutting edge research comes the expectation that funding is needed. Particularly in the sciences, grant funds can cover the cost of instrumentation, conference travel, summer stipends and the like. At the undergraduate level, it is essential to instill into the students the importance of finding and applying to funding opportunities (particularly for those who wish to pursue graduate degrees). While the Georgia College (GC) chemistry program currently does not have a formal “technical writing class”, here are discussed several activities that seek to expose undergraduate students to proposal writing and bettering their technical writing skills.

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Developing Students’ Skill in Script Writing for Their Final Project by Applying Guided Writing Task

Humaniora ◽

10.21512/humaniora.v9i2.4478 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 141

Author(s):

Mutia El Khairat ◽

Sariani Sariani

Keyword(s):

Qualitative Study ◽

Writing Skills ◽

English Department ◽

Shared Task ◽

Final Project ◽

Guided Writing ◽

Writing Task

The aim of this research was to develop students’ skill in script writing as it was one of the obligations for final year students of English Department, State Polytechnic of Padang (PNP). A qualitative study which was based on the theory of writing task stages highlighted by the expert in this area was taken. The analysis itself was perceived by applying ‘Guided Writing Task’ stages; Draw and Write Task and Shared Task which resulted in a few written draft scripts. For the triangulation to validate the data, a list of the question was conveyed to the students. The implementation of these two tasks and the students’ answer for the questionnaire show that this research has been helpful in improving their script writing skills, particularly on the grammar and organization of how a script should be written.

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Problems in Grammatical Structure: A Case Study of B.Ed. Student at the Education Department

sjesr ◽

10.36902/sjesr-vol3-iss2-2020(420-425) ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 420-425

Author(s):

Dr. Gulzar Ahmed ◽

Dr. Syed Shafqat Ali Shah ◽

Dr. Muhammad Nisar

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Quantitative Research ◽

English Language ◽

Text Structure ◽

Grammatical Structure ◽

Education Department ◽

Undergraduate Level ◽

English Grammar ◽

Grammatical Structures

English grammar is how words in the English language are translated into text. This includes the structure of words, phrases, clauses, and phrases, up to and including full-text structure. The main objective of the authors is to discover the difficulties of grammatical structures for students at the Department of Teacher Education. Shikarpur Shaikh Ayaz University. The students of B.Ed. undergraduate level of education department was selected as a data population. The fifty students were randomly selected from the education department. There is quantitative research underway. The researchers used a testing tool for a questionnaire. The student's collected data were analyzed by SPSS-Descriptive statistics. Some of the challenges and problems are facing during the English Grammar lesson of B.Ed. students. The students have used the conditional verb and also the proper use of a phrasal verb that is one of the problems with students. The use of an article is also one of the fundamental problems for undergraduate students. Teachers should make it possible for students to practice these materials either through activity-based teaching or through the CLT method so that they can be more attentive to EFL learning and not focus on translation alone.

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The Effect on Learning Objectives and Outcomes of Students’ Inability to Develop Language Competencies for Appropriate Communication at the Undergraduate Level

English Language Teaching and Linguistics Studies ◽

10.22158/eltls.v2n3p64 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. p64

Author(s):

Casimir Adjoe ◽

Rosemary Kimani

Keyword(s):

Learning Outcomes ◽

Undergraduate Students ◽

Random Sampling ◽

Writing Skills ◽

Learning Objectives ◽

Communication Studies ◽

Undergraduate Level ◽

English Writing ◽

Linguistic Ethnography ◽

Language Competencies

The ability to communicate is a skill needed for beneficial learning outcomes. It is likewise needed for functioning in our connected world and spaces. However, undergraduate writing still gives the impression of poor English writing skills and inadequate communication. The paper takes a linguistic ethnography approach to examine the effects of poor English writing skills on the learning objectives and communication of undergraduate students. Using a random sampling of 37 examination scripts of Communication Studies students and their analysis through a revised version of Bloom’s taxonomy of educational objectives, the study suggests that poor English writing skills and the inability to communicate are likely among the effects of the inability of undergraduate students to acquire competence at the comprehension, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation tasks needed to enable them compose knowledge and meaningful messages as well as to communicate them. The study, therefore, suggests the need for investigating practical steps that can be taken to assist students with poor English writing competencies and skills to access knowledge and be able to produce knowledge in their learning situations, and further still, be able to communicate their knowledge as competently as possible without an overemphasis on grammatical correctness as the goal.

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Elucidating the Importance of Numeracy Skills for Undergraduate Students in Life Sciences Using the Oxygen Requirement in Yeast as an Example

10.20944/preprints201803.0019.v1 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Vijayendran Raghavendran ◽

Karel Olavarria ◽

Andreas Karoly Gombert

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Energy Demand ◽

Defined Medium ◽

Point Of View ◽

Anaerobic Growth ◽

Oxygen Requirement ◽

Acid Fermentation ◽

Numeracy Skills ◽

Set Up

Current education in biology is devoid of mathematics in many countries, probably because many relevant biological processes are explained from a qualitative point of view rather than addressing the quantitative aspects of these phenomena. Here, we employ a case study from the yeast physiology to illustrate the importance of numeracy skills for a deeper understanding of relevant biological problems. Yeast anaerobic growth on sugars is a widespread process as it is the basis for beer, bread, and winemaking and it is much akin to lactic acid fermentation in muscle cells in response to an increased energy demand. To study the physiology of yeasts under controlled conditions and being able to compare the results quantitatively, one ought to perform measurements and calculations involving concentrations of oxygen, biomass, and organic compounds. To set-up an “anaerobic” culture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in a defined medium, one needs to calculate how much oxygen must enter the cultivation system, to meet the requirements for ergosterol and oleic acid biosyntheses, both of which require oxygen. Using basic physicochemical principles and simple mathematical skills, students will be able to compute the oxygen requirement for yeast growth under such “anaerobic” conditions.

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اثــــــــــر ظاهرة عسر القراءة على اداء طلبة الجامعة العراقيين دارسي اللغة الانجليزية لغة اجنبية بأدائهم في استيعاب القراءة

لارك ◽

10.31185/lark.vol3.iss32.164 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (32) ◽

pp. 64-73

Author(s):

حسين كمر كرم

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Direct Observation ◽

Signs And Symptoms ◽

College Of Education ◽

Literacy Skills ◽

Point Of View ◽

English Department ◽

Efl Learners ◽

Second Year

The study has positioned dyslexia within the discipline of incapacity research in try to comprehend how this disease can be interpret through the concept of disable barrier, and has developed an essential realist point of view to expand this conception. Many students come to college except any prognosis of dyslexia by way of specialists, though academic instructors can observe signs and symptoms of dyslexia in some students via direct observation of their activities inside the classroom. This generally capacity that there is an indication of dyslexia in the student‘s ranges of attainment in literacy skills. The participants of this study were undergraduate students second year English department / College of Education/ Wasit University. They are sample of this study (40male and female). Final results of this study show that there is dyslexia between Iraqi EFL learners that have not been diagnosed previously by administrators, instructors, and families in four skills especially in reading.

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Extensive versus strategic reading for learning English at Khulna University, Bangladesh

Studies in English Language and Education ◽

10.24815/siele.v5i2.11176 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 253-268

Author(s):

Molla Nazim Uddin Ahmed ◽

Molla Azizur Rahman ◽

Md. Obaidullah

Keyword(s):

Undergraduate Students ◽

Large Scale ◽

Research Study ◽

Schema Theory ◽

Small Scale ◽

English Department ◽

Extensive Reading ◽

Undergraduate Level ◽

Strategic Reading ◽

Learning English

This article reports on a small-scale research study conducted to investigate the comparative utility of extensive reading versus strategic reading for learning English at the undergraduate level in the English Department at Khulna University, a government university in south-western Bangladesh. The study is based on the schema theory where background knowledge is the basis of comprehension. A pre-tested questionnaire was used to conduct a survey. Data was collected from 158 respondents, all undergraduate students in the English Department who were selected at random. The results of the study showed that strategic reading is more favorable to students compared to extensive reading for the purpose of learning ESL. Finally, the results showed that strategic reading was more effective than extensive reading for learning English. The paper concludes with a call for further large-scale studies.

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