Förstaårsstudenters akademiska skrivande och hur det kan utvecklas

A major challenge for first-year students is the demands on academic writing. The purpose of study to identify students' difficulties with writing at beginning their education thereby contribute discussion about how development can be supported. overall theoretical perspective systemic functional linguistics (SFL). data consists texts from first examination a primary teacher program. analysis includes partly corpus 125 concerning sentence length, word proportion long words, variation, and lexical profile, qualitative text selection 11 larger group. results indicate that task design great importance advanced are, based profile. Furthermore, struggle paragraph division creating clear relationships between within paragraphs create coherent texts. also show need support develop ability write sources. Based results, authors discuss subject teachers in higher development.