Writing, one of the language skills, seems to be most difficult skill for students master. There are five aspects used evaluate students’ writing abilities: content, organization, vocabulary, use, and mechanics. This current narrative inquiry research aims find out difficulties in expository essays, factors that cause them have difficulties, strategies they use overcome them. The data this were...

What do the hit television show “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and statistical literacy have in common? Both involve using technical information as evidence in an inquiry, asking whether the scientific or numeric facts support a particular hypothesis. In this paper, I show how to apply standard expository writing techniques to quantitative writing: introducing the topic or question, describin...

The quality of writing instruction is the primary determinant acquisition. Revising and feedback are crucial aspects process. In this study, genre-specific strategy was used as part revision to develop text structure content different types in fourth grade. study also examined whether effect differed based on genre students' gender. Thirty first final drafts opinion, expository, argumentative t...

Writing is a challenging and demanding skill for EFL learners in Vietnam. Teaching writing skills at Vietnamese universities problematic since different approaches to have not been implemented effectively. Mainly, genre-based approach has yet classrooms successfully. This paper investigates how the taught learned Van Lang University. The study mentions some critical notions of systemic function...

This study compared 2 main approaches to readability assessment. Thequantitative approach applied idea density based on part of speech tagging andcompared 3 sets of text types (i.e., narrative, expository, and argumentative) withrespect to their ease of reading. The qualitative approach was done throughdeveloping questionnaires measuring intermediate EFL learners’ perceptions oncontent, motivat...

In earlier issues, the Journal of Basic Writing has carried an exchange about adult socio-cognitive development and college students' writing. To date, this colloquy has included Myra Kogen's "The Conventions of Expository Writing," my (Hays) reply to that article, and Joseph and Nancy Martinez's response to both papers. Whether or not such dialogue changes any minds, it forces us to question, ...

Writing learning is a process aimed at developing students' creativity in writing. One of the writing lessons taught school expository texts. Expository texts are that contain explanations information and knowledge. In to write, teachers should guide facilitate students with good, appropriate, quality teaching achieve optimal objectives. line this, this study aims find out initial analysis form...