Students in vocational schools in Greece are less motivated and have low performance in courses demanding academic skills, like language learning with reading and writing tasks (e.g. essay writing). If they were asked, they would say that they prefer to do things rather than study or get involved in traditional classroom language activities. School cannot provide them with language materials an...

The following winning essay was submitted in 2009 by a UK higher education student for an essay writing competition sponsored by the LearnHigher Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL) network. The set title was 'What is the point of referencing?', and there was a maximum word limit of 1,500 words. There is a tutor commentary on the points made by the student to the left of the ess...

This study aims to describe the level of grammatical errors in essays seventh grade students SMP PGRI 1 Kediri use sentences. research uses qualitative methods and descriptive research. The this is in-depth clearly gets direction for misuse sentences at syntactic student essay writing. In study, data were collected through reading skills, note taking, interviews teachers students. collection pr...

The current study examined relationships between expert human judgments of text quality and grammar and mechanical errors in student writing. A corpus of essays (N = 100) written by high school students in the W-Pal system was collected, coded for grammar and mechanical errors, and scored by expert human raters. Results revealed weak relations between grammar errors and holistic essay scores an...

Despite the crucial role of introductory sections in argumentative academic writing, the effects of genre- based approaches to writing introductory paragraphs have not been much explored yet. The present study aimed to investigate whether the provision of genre knowledge through modeling and non-modeling could enhance learners’ ability in writing introductory paragraphs of argumentative essays....

Essay writing is an important learning activity which involves higher level thinking, the same as concept mapping activities.