The general purpose of this study is to investigate the best fit model for ability students in technical writing that used structural equation modeling (SEM) as basis design instrument analyzing relationship between affective factors, teacher communication behavior, vocabulary learning strategies and competency. A descriptive-causal stratified random sampling technique were select 400 students....

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This is the premise which the author, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, carries throughout the book. It is an alarming notion for some, acceptable to others, but nonetheless fresh and thought provoking to most. As scientists, we often delegate the actual writing process to a secondary role in the process of scientific investigation and reporting. But as ...

English as Foreign Language (EFL) students face additional difficulties for academic writing largely due to their level of language competency. An appropriate structural process of writing can help students develop their academic writing skills. This study explored the use of the e-readers to facilitate EFL students' process-based academic writing. The experiment was conducted in the graduate l...