Undergraduate Essay Writing – XI
References in APA Style. REFERENCES BALLARD, B. & CLANCHY, J. (1988) Literacy in the university: an anthropological approach, in: G. TAYLOR, B. BALLARD, V. BEASLEY, H. BOCH, J. CLANCHY & P. NIGHTINGALE (Eds) Literacy by Degrees (Milton Keynes, Society for Research into Higher Education and Open University Press). BAZERMAN, C. (1988) Shaping Written Knowledge: the [...]
Undergraduate Essay Writing – X
Discussion Although the two perspectives employed in this research originate from two different disciplines with their own theoretical bases and methodologies, their combination yielded a valuable confirmation that the writing process students experience–informed as it is by their conceptions of the purpose of writing–will have a profound impact on the textual patterns and the meanings [...]
Undergraduate Essay Writing – IX
Relationship between Process and Product Table I displays the empirical relationship between the variables representing the student’s process of writing the essay as described by the phenomenographic analysis, and the product as described by the linguistic analysis. The table clearly shows that students who had a multistructural conception and who had adopted a surface approach [...]
Undergraduate Essay Writing – VIII
Representation of the Essay’s Meaning To probe the essays further, we turned our attention away from the textual devices used to organise and present the meanings. In our second analysis of the texts, we focused on the ideational metafunction (Halliday, 1985), in order to explore the meanings themselves. By ideational metafunction, we refer to meaning [...]
Undergraduate Essay Writing – I
Introduction In the practice of teaching writing to tertiary students, the traditional approach has been process-oriented with its emphasis on teaching students how they should go about the task of preparing their written assignments. For the most part, this approach has not been research based, and could be seen as offering the apprentice writer prescriptive [...]
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