scholarly journals Lexical and Syntactic Complexities in Undergraduate Students’ Research Articles and Their Correlations to Their Quality

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 123-133
Author(s):  
Ratna Dewi
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Research Articles

scholarly journals A Discourse Analysis: Cohesion of the Introduction Section of Research Article

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Anis Firdatul Rochma ◽  
Sulis Triyono
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Language ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Semantic Meaning ◽  
Lexical Cohesion ◽  
Research Article ◽  
English Academic Writing ◽  
Writing Competence

<em>As an effort to give contribution to the existing knowledge, it is expected for the undergraduate students to compose an engaging research article in order to convince the readers about the importance of the research article. However, there is only a little attention given to the articles written by the undergraduate students although it is considered very critical to examine whether the exposure of English academic writing has significantly enhances the writing competence of the students. Furthermore, as it is also very crucial to build a meaningful semantic meaning among the sentences in order to disclose the worthiness of the research article, it is essential to analyze the cohesion of the research article written by the undergraduate students. Henceforth, the present research is projected to investigate the cohesion of the research articles written by the undergraduate students of English Language Teaching. As the introduction section of research article is likely to be an area to portray the logical explanation of the research, the present research solely focuses on examining the cohesion of the introduction section of research article. By adopting a qualitative design and involving several steps to analyze the introduction section, it is revealed that the grammatical cohesion is considered to be the most utilized type of cohesion in writing the introduction section. Still, the lexical cohesion is also necessary to build an eloquent semantic meaning about the topic as well the importance of the research article.</em>

Statistics Used in Current Social Work Literature: Curricular Needs of Undergraduate Students

2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-90
Author(s):  
Bushra Sabri ◽  
Mercedes Bern Klug
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Statistical Methods ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Social Work Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Curricular Needs

This study sought to identify the most commonly reported statistical methods in a section of the social work literature and demonstrate the need for including them in the statistical curricula for social work undergraduates. The authors reviewed 417 articles from Health & Social Work, Social Work, Social Work Research, and Children & Schools in 64 issues published from January 2005 to December 2008. The quantitative empirical research articles (47.9%; n=200) were then selected to ascertain the most frequently reported statistical methods, which were found to be correlation, regression, and chi procedures. This study's results may contribute to the knowledge of statistics usage in the social work literature and help to define vital emphases for undergraduate research courses in social work.

scholarly journals Rhetorical styles of Introduction in English language teaching (ELT) research articles

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 304-314
Author(s):  
Anis Firdatul Rochma ◽  
Anita Triastuti ◽  
A. Ashadi
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
English Language ◽  
Undergraduate Research ◽  
Language Education ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Major Factors

Research articles have been considered as the primary media of knowledge production. Nevertheless, for some undergraduate students, writing a research article can be a challenging task since they need to be aware of its rhetorical styles. Even though previous studies have been conducted to reveal the rhetorical styles of scientific papers, yet tend to focus more on research articles obtained from well-established journals. Hence, this study aims to reveal the rhetorical styles and draw the rhetoric pattern from the introduction section of 73 research articles written by the undergraduate students of English Language Education (ELE) at a state university in Yogyakarta. This is a qualitative investigation whose data were collected by random sampling technique and went through Safnil’s (2013) four analysis stages. As the primary framework for analysis, the modified CARS (Create a Research Space) model (Swales Feak, 2004) was adopted. The results show that Step 2: Making topic generalization in Move 1 and Step 1B: Indicating a gap in Move 2 are the obligatory steps in writing the introduction section. Nevertheless, the results reveal that mostly undergraduate research papers lack 1 step in Move 1, 2 steps in Move 2, and 3 steps in Move 3. The omission of steps in the CARS model by these student-authors seems to happen due to two major factors, namely the scarcity of control over the writing process and linguistic resources, hence suggesting pedagogical implications for academic writing courses.

scholarly journals Working with undergraduate students of Translation with a genre-based approach

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Tavares Pinto Paiva
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Academic Genre ◽  
The Way

Research articles in national and international journals provide abstracts usually written in English. This paper discusses the importance of working with this sub-genre with future researchers and translators during their university years. Two concepts of genre are presented (SWALES, 1990; BATHIA, 1993), as well as an approach on how to introduce academic genre to undergraduate students. After applying this approach to a mini-course about academic writing, we have noted that translation students have been more attentive to the way they deal with texts based on communicative purposes, tasks, target readers and language.

scholarly journals University students’ alcohol use behaviour and self-efficacy to abstain from alcohol use: data from Ghana

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Franklin N. Glozah ◽  
Joyce Komesuor
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
University Students ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Complex Analysis ◽  
Religious Affiliation ◽  
Decisional Balance ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Statistical Software ◽  
Alcohol Abstinence

Abstract Objectives The university students’ alcohol use behaviour and alcohol use self-efficacy data were collected among Ghanaian university students. This survey had two main objectives: (a) to examine the factorial validity, structure, and reliability of the 20-item alcohol abstinence self-efficacy scale among undergraduate students and (b) to examine the role of alcohol abstinence self-efficacy in the pros and cons of alcohol use. These two objectives have been published as separate research articles without the data (including data management) that were used for analyses. As the data are not already available as part of these published papers, this data note provides a composite and integrated data grounded on these published research articles with detailed information on the instruments used to collect data, raw data in statistical software, managed/coded data in statistical software, and generated correlation matrix used to perform complex analysis. Data description The data includes information on two major dimensions: (a) alcohol abstinence self-efficacy—negative affect, social interactions and positive states, physical pain/illness, and alcohol craving (thoughts about using) and (b) decisional balance—measuring the benefits (pros) of alcohol use and the costs (cons) of alcohol use. In addition, data were collected on socio-demographic characteristics of students including their age, sex, level/year in school, stream of study, place of residence and religious affiliation. The data collected is more representative of students in private universities.

scholarly journals Actor and Goal Representation in the Transitivity System of Undergraduate Theses and Journal Research Articles: an SFL Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Marsandi Manar ◽  
Siti Wachidah ◽  
Ratna Dewanti
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Lexical Resources ◽  
Material Process ◽  
Goal Representation ◽  
Experiential Meaning

AbstractThe current study scrutinizes the representation of actors and goals of transitivity system in the introduction sections of   theses (ISoT) composed by undergraduate students in reference to that of the introduction sections of research articles (ISoRA) considered as the target writings in the academic discourse of knowledge building. 738 English ranking clauses from 10 English-field ISoT and 694 from 10 ISoRA of TESOL Quarterly were analysed for their material processes as well as their participants and circumstances. The analysis was executed with the tables of analysis adapted from Halliday’s experiential meaning framework.  The analysis reveals that in the material processes of ISoRA previous studies and previous researchers instead of current studies and current researchers are more frequently employed as actors. Contrary, in their ISoT counterpart, the latter outnumber the former. The analysis also finds that goals in the material processes of ISoT in comparison with its ISoRA counterpart still lack previous findings. Overall, the representation of actors and goals in the material processes of ISoT still needs lexical resources that underpin the process of knowledge building. This has been confirmed by the tendency of actors and goals of ISoT to represent its study undertaken, compared with its ISoRA counterpart focusing more on previous related studiesKeywords: actors, goals, material process, transitivity system, ISoT, ISoRA

Editorial comments: As we read

1965 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Professional Literature ◽  
Pilot Studies ◽  
College Professors

Who reads research articles? All classes of readers of such a journal as this should—college professors, because trends that inspire other, more exhaustive research are sometimes detected in short reports and pilot studies; graduate tudents, because it is a way of keeping up with the t hinking of the profession; undergraduate students, because it is a start toward knowledge acquired on a basis other than an authoritarian one and a start toward acquaintance with professional literature and scholarship.

scholarly journals Examining Digital Citizenship Studies: Conceptual and Methodological Trends

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 385-393
Author(s):  
mücahit öztürk
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Citizenship Education ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
Digital Citizenship ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Internet Safety ◽  
Content Analysis Method

The aim of this research is to examine the digital citizenship studies in the literature in terms of research subject, research method and research group. In this direction, the study attempts to present the perspective for future researchers by identifying the trends of digital citizenship studies. Research articles were evaluated by content analysis method. Research articles were searched in EBSCO, ERIC, Taylor and Francis ve SCOPUS databases. Database searches were performed using keywords such as “Digital citizenship”, “Digital citizenship education”, “Digital citizenship in schools”, “Digital citizenship scale”, “Digital citizenship in curriculum”, “Digital age”, “Digital technologies”, “Internet safety”. 119 research articles were reached. When the digital citizenship studies are examined, there are theoretical studies on the dimensions of digital citizenship, digital citizenship teaching, and scale development studies for determining the level of digital citizenship. In this study, literature review, survey and case study were benefited as research methods. Undergraduate students and adults stand out as research groups. There is a need for experimental studies on digital citizenship education and evaluation of students studying in primary and secondary schools.

scholarly journals THEME PATTERNS IN INTRODUCTION SECTIONS OF RESEARCH ARTICLES WRITTEN BY UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Afriani Afriani ◽  
Refnaldi Refnaldi
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
English Language ◽  
Language Teaching ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
English Language Teaching ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
English Department ◽  
Linear Pattern ◽  
Language And Literature

This study analyzed theme patterns of 41 introduction sections of research articles written by undergraduate students of Indonesia, especially students of the English department in Universitas Negeri Padang. The sources of data are from e-journal archives of E-journal English Language and Literature (JELL) and Journal of English Language Teaching (JELT) of Universitas Negeri Padang. The data were analyzed by classifying the theme and rheme structure of clause sequences and then determining the patterns. This research is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach. The result of the findings shows that a simple linear pattern (42,70%) found to be the most dominant pattern of the theme found in the data. In addition, new patterns (27,35%) are also frequently used in the data. These findings indicate that most students tend to write their ideas more cohesive than coherent as the lack of using an interpersonal theme and derived hyper-theme pattern found in the data.

scholarly journals A Teaching Strategy with a Focus on Argumentation to Improve Undergraduate Students’ Ability to Read Research Articles

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edwin B. Van Lacum ◽  
Miriam A. Ossevoort ◽  
Martin J. Goedhart
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Research University ◽  
Teaching Strategy ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Research Articles ◽  
First Year ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
Program Comparison ◽  
Comparison Of The Results ◽  
Work Done

The aim of this study is to evaluate a teaching strategy designed to teach first-year undergraduate life sciences students at a research university how to learn to read authentic research articles. Our approach—based on the work done in the field of genre analysis and argumentation theory—means that we teach students to read research articles by teaching them which rhetorical moves occur in research articles and how they can identify these. Because research articles are persuasive by their very nature, we focused on the rhetorical moves that play an important role in authors’ arguments. We designed a teaching strategy using cognitive apprenticeship as the pedagogical approach. It was implemented in a first-year compulsory course in the life sciences undergraduate program. Comparison of the results of a pretest with those of the posttest showed that students’ ability to identify these moves had improved. Moreover, students themselves had also perceived that their ability to read and understand a research article had increased. The students’ evaluations demonstrated that they appreciated the pedagogical approach used and experienced the assignments as useful. On the basis of our results, we concluded that students had taken a first step toward becoming expert readers.

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