Strategies to Minimise Students' Weaknesses in Discussion Essay.
Discussion essay plays a crucial role in academic writing. It has been proven to enhance students' analytical and critical thinking skills effectively. However, students often struggle to compose a good writing due to their inability to use the language features. In that regard, this study aims...
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my.unimas.ir.349292023-10-11T02:55:24Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/34929/ Strategies to Minimise Students' Weaknesses in Discussion Essay. Dexter Sigan, John L Education (General) LB2300 Higher Education Discussion essay plays a crucial role in academic writing. It has been proven to enhance students' analytical and critical thinking skills effectively. However, students often struggle to compose a good writing due to their inability to use the language features. In that regard, this study aims to identify students’ weaknesses in the discussion essay and the changes seen after the intervention. The study used a purposive sample of 10 first-year students from the Computational Science Programme in Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) who took Academic English 2 as an elective course. The study adapted the four stages of action research proposed by Mertler and Charles (2005). It administered a pre-test, post-test and an observation on the students. The findings indicate a significant decrease in the frequency of errors in the language features, namely verb, persuasive language and technical terms, after the two-month intervention. Students also exhibited positive learning behaviour throughout the intervention by participating actively in the learning activities. UNIMAS Publisher 2021-03-25 Article PeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/34929/1/Strategies%20to%20Minimise%20Students%E2%80%99%20Weaknesses%20in%20Discussion%20Essay%20-%20Copy.pdf Dexter Sigan, John (2021) Strategies to Minimise Students' Weaknesses in Discussion Essay. Journal of Cognitive Sciences and Human Development, 7 (1). pp. 106-114. ISSN 2462-1153 https://publisher.unimas.my/ojs/index.php/JCSHD/issue/view/171 httpt://doi.org/10.33736/jcshd.3049.2021 |
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Discussion essay plays a crucial role in academic writing. It has been proven to enhance students' analytical and critical thinking skills effectively. However, students often struggle to compose a good writing due to their inability to use the language features. In that regard, this study aims to identify students’ weaknesses in the discussion essay and the changes seen after the intervention. The study used a purposive sample of 10 first-year students from the Computational Science Programme in Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) who took Academic English 2 as an elective course. The study adapted the four stages of action research proposed by Mertler and Charles (2005). It administered a pre-test, post-test and an observation
on the students. The findings indicate a significant decrease in the frequency of errors in the language
features, namely verb, persuasive language and technical terms, after the two-month intervention. Students
also exhibited positive learning behaviour throughout the intervention by participating actively in the
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