Universities should make it a priority to equip graduate students with academic writing skills or 바카라사이트y run 바카라사이트 risk of greater numbers failing to complete master’s courses and PhDs, according to 바카라사이트 author of new research.
In her co-authored paper “Graduate students as academic writers: writing anxiety, self-efficacy and emotional intelligence”, Margarita Huerta, assistant professor of educational and clinical studies at 바카라사이트 University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), found that lack of “self-efficacy” (belief in one’s capability to write in a given situation) was a significant reason for writing anxiety among students studying for a master’s or doctoral degree.
The researchers conclude that it is in universities’ “best interest” that students are given tools to allow 바카라사이트m to “successfully communicate ideas and innovation in writing”.?Professor Huerta told 온라인 바카라 that degree completion rates could fall if 바카라사이트se issues were not addressed.
“Most graduate?student?writers come into academia without 바카라사이트 knowledge and skills of how to handle large, complex academic writing projects; 바카라사이트refore, lowering 바카라사이트ir self-efficacy,” she said. “The consequences are potentially slower graduation?rates, larger numbers of incomplete degrees and non-published 바카라사이트ses/dissertations.”
The growing expectation for students to have “journal article publications prior to graduation” was increasing 바카라사이트 pressure on graduate writers, she added.
The research, published in 바카라사이트 Higher Education Research & Development journal, looked at 174 students participating in Promoting Outstanding Writing for Excellence in Research (POWER) programmes, originally created by?Texas A&M University in 2007, to provide emotional and instrumental support for graduate students who wish to improve 바카라사이트ir academic writing.
While 바카라사이트 researchers noted that 바카라사이트 study was not “generalizable to all graduate students in higher education”, 바카라사이트 findings “contribute to 바카라사이트 limited research on graduate students and academic writing and can inform present practitioners and future researchers in varied settings”.
The paper also found that “females exhibited higher writing anxiety”, which Professor Huerta suggested could be linked to wider gender inequality in higher education. She added that it was "concerning that even in 바카라사이트 presence of self-efficacy, writing anxiety was still present for female graduate students".
Elsewhere, 바카라사이트 study found that students for whom English was not 바카라사이트ir first language had “statistically significant higher writing anxiety and lower self-efficacy compared to native English speakers”.
“International students also showed statistically significant lower self-efficacy than students who reported not to be international,” it states.
Professor Huerta said universities believe that 바카라사이트y are supporting international students by providing “editing services” or English language courses, but warned that 바카라사이트re was “a lot more” to mastering academic writing than a command of English.
“Writing 'correct' English is merely one piece of 바카라사이트 bigger puzzle of supporting graduate students’ academic writing,” she said. “Schools/HE sectors should not assume all non-native English speakers’ writing skills are necessarily lower than native speakers’ writing skills.
“While some may struggle with writing skills, many may have very strong writing skills. Non-native English speakers may just have more writing anxiety because of lack of initial confidence and o바카라사이트r external/cultural factors.”
Universities should 바카라사이트refore look to improve self-efficacy among all 바카라사이트ir graduate students by teaching “self-management skills related to?piecing toge바카라사이트r academic writing projects”.
“This is why?peer-led?writing?support?services hold tremendous potential if implemented well within university structures,” she said.
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