EFL learners inevitably will enter the world of academia, which makes it mandatory for them to write academic writings, especially in form research articles. They are obliged broaden knowledge field their interest by conducting research. Unfortunately, writing has always been a serious challenge them. Writing articles indeed requires be familiar with guidelines, particularly about how ideas dev...

Academic writing expertise, we argue, is acquired through long practice and by the mentoring of significant others in a socialisation process which resembles an ‘apprenticeship’. The way that feedback provided to novice writers community-sanctioned experts can scaffold research writers’ development texts their scholarly identities as writers, which, however, has been relatively little studied. ...

As long as there have been writers, they given advice to others on writing. Numerous academic and non-academic writers contributed how create a writing life, write well, get published. Much of this literature aims assist through the challenges encountered in process. Helen Sword’s book, Writing with Pleasure, takes an atypical approach by showing readers can their own action plan pleasure. Suit...

This article explores the problems faced by professional writers in attempting to anticipate the needs of their readers. On the basis of two studies (a study of the literature on expert/novice communication and an exploratory study requiring experts to assess and explain the likelihood and severity of various problems for readers), the authors distinguish cognitive shortcuts that may hinder exp...

In this paper we introduce the AMADEUS strategy, which has been used to produce scientific writing tools for non-native users of English for 15 years, and emphasize a learnby-doing approach through which students and novice writers can improve their scientific writing. More specifically, we provide a 9-step recipe for the students to compile writing material according to a procedure that has pr...

BACKGROUND Writing a scientific manuscript is an important component of academic medicine. For most novice writers, this task may seem quite formidable. DISCUSSION This article will review the basic processes of writing a manuscript, with emphasis on the proper structure and organization of the article. The likelihood of a manuscript being accepted is highly dependent on its content and struc...

Argumentative writing is the central generic skill in higher education studies. However, students have difficulties basic argumentation skills. Novice do not necessarily receive adequate guidance, and their prior may supported requirements of writing. Position-taking at core argumentation, but are often hesitant to make point. Furthermore, they an incorrect one-sided perception about argument, ...

Faced with many different levels of writing proficiency, composition instructors know all too well the extreme variations in ability between students. Typically inexperienced or novice writers do not take much time to develop detailed plans before writing, and when confronted with the need for revision, they consider any rewriting as punitive. This negative attitude toward correcting their text...