Writing about Writing: An Exploration of Types of Knowledge and Writing Difficulties

Academic writing or expository is different in many ways than narrative descriptive essays. While the latter retells writers’ experience and observations, former requires writers to think plan before they can begin writing. This because no longer depends on their memory. They soon discover essay not merely transferring from oral thoughts written thoughts. cannot just retell what already know have find for valid information (content knowledge), check validity of (problem analysis set goals) then write a proper manner (discourse knowledge). are only required knowledge-tell but also knowledge-transform into task. study done explore difficulties that face when academic qualitative how feel about faced 20 participants were purposively chosen students who attended semester course first time university. 10 social sciences discipline while them science technology discipline. Findings revealed problem & goal setting, content knowledge discourse knowledge. this adds body understanding why task difficult.